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Friday, February 23. 2007

There is a slight but extremely important change in the licensing modell of Oracle. The Multicore FAQ states:

Oracle Database Standard Edition can only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 4 sockets. When using RAC to cluster this limitation is mirrored in the cluster. It may be licensed on a single cluster of servers supporting up to a maximum of four sockets.

What does this means: Our workhorse server V490 is now usable with Standard Edition. So you can save a vast amount of money. Instead of 3 Licenses (each core is counted as 0.75) Enterprise Edition you need only three licenses Standard.

Or you can build an incredible powerful OLTP RAC-Cluster with 4 T2000 servers. Although they have 32 threads there is only one single socket per Server. 128 parallel threads = 4 UltraSPARC T1 = 4 Sockets = within the limitation Standard Edition. Standard Edition = RAC included.

And now the kicker: Niagara 2 equals 64 threads per socket. Means 256 threads per 4-node cluster. But: Still only 4 sockets. And you surely know it: Still Standard Edition.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Oracle at 12:12 | Comments (5) | Trackback (1)

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from: http://orafaq.com/wiki/Oracle_Licensing

Oracle Standard Edition costs about the same as Microsoft SQL Server. It can only be licensed on servers, or server clusters, that have a maximum capacity of 4 processors and 8 cores, however when licensing multi-core processors you must multiple the cores in the server, or server cluster, by the multiplier and the resulting number must be less than or equal to 4.

#1 El Burro on 2007-02-23 17:51 (Reply)

I think it´s quite naturally, that a FAQ that was edit on 11th january doesn´t reflect licencing changes made on 16t of february.

#1.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-02-23 19:49 (Reply)

25 years of Sun and no blog?

#1.2 koebese on 2007-02-23 21:59 (Reply)

Das ist morgen

#1.2.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-02-23 22:48 (Reply)

Also check this for other stipulations
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/contracts/library/sun_server_table.pdf

#2 Dominik (Homepage) on 2008-11-18 23:31 (Reply)

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