Here the US, there is a Site license for Oracle or some call it, an Enterprise License. It works something like this. For something in the range of $1-2M per year you get to run an unlimited number of Oracle DB and Apps Server plus all of the features they offer; performance tool, track patches, etc BUT only running on internally facing systems within the Intranet.
I understand here we have a limited number of external licenses which are organized in a very small number of 2-Core, 4-Core, 6-Core, 8-Core and I understand 10 & 12 Core licenses. Keep in mind the 2-Core License runs around $50K on US GSA schedule. Back when we transferred a 2-Core license off a laptop over to one z900 IFL (238MIPS) and now am using it on on the upgraded z9BC (480 MIPS) to run 8-9 instances with more on the way; all with the same 2-Core license. Recently, in the hall the other side of support was unboxing a new 10 processor (yes they called it processor and not Core) Intel blade and while snickering asked me what I have knowing I run a 2-CP and 3-CP z/OS z9BCs. They hurried it into the machine room to rack-it and went to plug it in only to see a strange plug. They asked what kind of a plug we thought it was and it was 220V (never seen by them before). Next day they were over to our side asking it they could plug it into one of our PDUs. Thus say it was a 10-Core, an externally facing Oracle license would be $250K+ and do you believe they have everything supporting that application living on one box and only one box. Some interesting dollars. Am sure Oracle or some reseller would explain the pricing. jim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
