The cost of Oracle license varies depending on the number of users and your preference, or that of your company. The main difference of the two is that, under processor metric, there is no limit as to the number of users that can access the programs, whereas, under the Named User Plus, you are limited to a number of users that your license allows. When your company is constantly expanding, where the number of users can increase significantly anytime, the Processor metric seems to be a wiser choice.
Having established itself as an ardent Linux supporter, the company is going to make more of an effort to promote its database on Windows in the hope of stealing some business from Microsoft, he said in a speech that was webcast from San Diego. What matters to customers are the long term costs associated with running a database like maintenance, support, staff overhead, training and completeness of functionality," Tom Rizzo, director of product management for SQL Server, wrote in an e-mail response to questions.
It was unclear whether Oracle plans to announce any pricing changes to the higher-end versions of its database. While Oracle's database is known for performance and its ability to scale, the company has battled a reputation for complexity and high costs when compared to Microsoft, Phillips acknowledged in his speech. New ease of use features in Oracle 10g, combined with its pricing strategy, will help the company compete more effectively with Microsoft, he said.
Oracle's Standard Edition One database was released in October. A few months earlier IBM also released a version of its database software for the midmarket. Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out. And it will enable customers to run that database version on two processors.
The current Oracle 9i Standard Edition One is limited for use on one-processor servers. That "limited-time" discount lasted well beyond its expiration date. The Linux version of the 10g database is expected to ship this week, to be followed by the Windows version. Oracle could not be reached for comment. Betsy Burton, an analyst at Gartner Group, said that if true, the inclusion of RAC in the standard edition would be a step in the right direction.
However, Oracle's "real opportunity to set the world on fire would be to bundle two or three nodes of RAC with the Enterprise Edition," she said.
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