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Oracle products are outrageously expensive, but I wouldn't call their licensing complicated. Microsoft's model (with CALs) is much more opaque and they refuse t
by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 7y ago
Oracle products are outrageously expensive, but I wouldn't call their licensing complicated. Microsoft's model (with CALs) is much more opaque and they refuse to clarify it. I can't comment on IBM licensing though, unfortunately I know nothing about it.
- SteveNuts 7y agoOracle has the exact same thing, they just call it "Named users" or "NUP's" rather than "CAL". https://www.peakindicators.com/blog/oracle-licensing-nups-per-processor-restrictions https://www.peakindicators.com/blog/oracle-licensing-nups-pe...
- hermitdev 7y agoI don't know about current IBM licensing, but for DB2 UDB server on Windows circa 2001, it was was something like $150k per CPU per year (pre multicore, only SMP at the time).