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Oracle Pricing [pdf]

22 points by larrykubin 16y ago

ghempton 16y ago
How do you switch to the HTML5 version?
- patrickaljord 16y ago
  It takes a bit longer for the HTML5 version to be generated I've noticed.
- mahmud 16y ago
  If you want to view the Oracle price list in HTML5, you will need to fill this form first and an Oracle account manager will come back to you with a price quote for the HTML5 URLs, per CPU core. If your organization deploys clusters of iOS devices for surfing HN, and enterprise knowledge acquisition; Oracle can provide an in-house demonstration of the URLs and their reachability. Our support staff can provide accurate support and trouble-shooting of rendering quality at the pixel level.
joshwa 16y ago
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition: $47,500 per processor, plus $10k yearly update/maintenance.
- patrickaljord 16y ago
  This explains that http://people.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/60466 http://people.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/60466
- mvalle 16y ago
  Oracle's other database, MySQL, only cost's $0.1 in download costs, + ~$1 yearly download costs for updates.
  - tbrownaw 16y ago
    Yes, but I've heard that it also doesn't work very well.
pvg 16y ago
Oracle is a business that sells products which in turn have prices? Wake me up for the film at 11.
- bretpiatt 16y ago
  Agreed, not sure why this is getting up votes at all on the topic. If you're running a DB that processes $100M in transactions annually is paying $250k in licenses and $50k/yr in maintenance unreasonable? Of course that pricing for the software isn't for every use case but they aren't trying to sell to the entire market.
  - amock 16y ago
    It's unreasonable if it doesn't give you $250k + $50k a year in benefits and there are free alternatives available. There are some cases where it makes sense, but I think it's good to have a discussion about what kind of benefits it provides to make it worth the extra money.
    - houseabsolute 16y ago
      Walking: free. Car: not free. Therefore walk everywhere since a free alternative is available? The thing is, 250k of benefits as two and a half engineers. I don't know Oracle software at all, but I imagine there are a number of use cases where their advantage over mysql would be at least that much.
      - amock 16y ago
        Walking isn't always better, but it can be a viable alternative and there are options in between. As far as I know there is no cheap alternative to Oracle RAC, but I know that there are cases where using a combination of Hadoop and PostgreSQL can replace an Oracle DB.
        bretpiatt 16y ago
        Seems like you agree with the existing point, "Walking (the free database alternative) isn't always better ... As far as I know there is no cheap alternative to Oracle RAC (the same point can be made to no cheap alternative for having a car which is better in some situations as you just agreed)." This doesn't mean the open source community should just give up on making a database capable of meeting the needs RAC does today -- at the same time it also doesn't mean business should only use the free alternative when it is a more efficient use of resources for them to purchase RAC.
henning 16y ago
at least they're up front about it rather than saying "type your contact information in so we can have a 'sales representative' spam your inbox and voice mail" like a lot of enterprise software companies do. cf. #10 in http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
- deleted 16y ago
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wallflower 16y ago
Oracle's standard operating procedure is to double each salesperson's quota every year.
paulhart 16y ago
This list is incomplete - it only contains software that Oracle considers "off the shelf". Products in their lineup that are targeted at very specific niches are not listed. Without naming specific products (I'm probably under some kind of NDA though I don't work for Uncle Larry), to give you an idea: products that are sold exclusively through RFPs and the like are less likely to be on a "this is what it costs" list.
eklitzke 16y ago
Does anyone know what you get you buy the Berkeley DB products? I'm mostly curious if they've actually added new/cool things that aren't available in the open-source releases, or if you're purchasing licensing rights for commercial use, support, etc.

22 points by larrykubin 16y ago

ghempton 16y ago

How do you switch to the HTML5 version?

patrickaljord 16y ago
It takes a bit longer for the HTML5 version to be generated I've noticed.
mahmud 16y ago
If you want to view the Oracle price list in HTML5, you will need to fill this form first and an Oracle account manager will come back to you with a price quote for the HTML5 URLs, per CPU core. If your organization deploys clusters of iOS devices for surfing HN, and enterprise knowledge acquisition; Oracle can provide an in-house demonstration of the URLs and their reachability. Our support staff can provide accurate support and trouble-shooting of rendering quality at the pixel level.

joshwa 16y ago

Oracle Database Enterprise Edition: $47,500 per processor, plus $10k yearly update/maintenance.

patrickaljord 16y ago
This explains that http://people.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/60466 http://people.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/60466
mvalle 16y ago
Oracle's other database, MySQL, only cost's $0.1 in download costs, + ~$1 yearly download costs for updates.
- tbrownaw 16y ago
  Yes, but I've heard that it also doesn't work very well.

pvg 16y ago

Oracle is a business that sells products which in turn have prices? Wake me up for the film at 11.

bretpiatt 16y ago
Agreed, not sure why this is getting up votes at all on the topic. If you're running a DB that processes $100M in transactions annually is paying $250k in licenses and $50k/yr in maintenance unreasonable? Of course that pricing for the software isn't for every use case but they aren't trying to sell to the entire market.
- amock 16y ago
  It's unreasonable if it doesn't give you $250k + $50k a year in benefits and there are free alternatives available. There are some cases where it makes sense, but I think it's good to have a discussion about what kind of benefits it provides to make it worth the extra money.
  - houseabsolute 16y ago
    Walking: free. Car: not free. Therefore walk everywhere since a free alternative is available? The thing is, 250k of benefits as two and a half engineers. I don't know Oracle software at all, but I imagine there are a number of use cases where their advantage over mysql would be at least that much.
    - amock 16y ago
      Walking isn't always better, but it can be a viable alternative and there are options in between. As far as I know there is no cheap alternative to Oracle RAC, but I know that there are cases where using a combination of Hadoop and PostgreSQL can replace an Oracle DB.
      - bretpiatt 16y ago
        Seems like you agree with the existing point, "Walking (the free database alternative) isn't always better ... As far as I know there is no cheap alternative to Oracle RAC (the same point can be made to no cheap alternative for having a car which is better in some situations as you just agreed)." This doesn't mean the open source community should just give up on making a database capable of meeting the needs RAC does today -- at the same time it also doesn't mean business should only use the free alternative when it is a more efficient use of resources for them to purchase RAC.

henning 16y ago

at least they're up front about it rather than saying "type your contact information in so we can have a 'sales representative' spam your inbox and voice mail" like a lot of enterprise software companies do. cf. #10 in http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

deleted 16y ago
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wallflower 16y ago

Oracle's standard operating procedure is to double each salesperson's quota every year.

paulhart 16y ago

This list is incomplete - it only contains software that Oracle considers "off the shelf". Products in their lineup that are targeted at very specific niches are not listed. Without naming specific products (I'm probably under some kind of NDA though I don't work for Uncle Larry), to give you an idea: products that are sold exclusively through RFPs and the like are less likely to be on a "this is what it costs" list.

eklitzke 16y ago

Does anyone know what you get you buy the Berkeley DB products? I'm mostly curious if they've actually added new/cool things that aren't available in the open-source releases, or if you're purchasing licensing rights for commercial use, support, etc.