Oracle, a database vendor, is pretty tight-lipped about its financing. Nowhere on the website is price listed. Today, we managed to breach this obfuscation. We had to call them.
Licensing for Oracle is offered on a per-CPU basis for the database servers, and on a per-machine basis for the user clients. They weren’t clear as to what constitutes a CPU — does Hyperthreading count as 2 CPUs? does Dual-Core?
Either way, the price per CPU is $40,000.
Per client machine, the license cost is $800.
Plus a support contract.
So, instead of spending well over $200,000 on this…
We’re replacing Yon Reptile Campaign’s ancient Oracle server with one running PostgreSQL.
Thats a helluva lot of money. I guess the rule “if you have to ask about price, you can’t afford it” applied.
Submitted by Justin (not verified) on 2007.04.13 @ 02:37. |
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