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Now load any piece of Oracle software onto it and get charged for running 1060 CPUs. Whoops.

by NohatCoder 7y ago

rowanG077 7y ago
Oracle doesn't charge per CPU it charges per core. Enjoy paying for 4240 cores!
- malux85 7y ago
  I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, you’re correct!
chrisseaton 7y ago
I believe there's a scaling factor, so lower powered cores like this are charged as a fraction of a Xeon you'd normally use.
- tyingq 7y ago
  ARM isn't listed on their table, so it slots into "all other multicore CPUs". Scaling factor is 1. So no help there.
MR4D 7y ago
“The only thing that scales better than an Oracle database is their licensing cost! “ - heard years ago from a friend. Not sure of the origination of the quote.
zepearl 7y ago
Aha - I stubled upon this https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10872 https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10872 yesterday and thought "why would they want to achieve compatibility with Oracle DBs?" => now (I think that) I do understand that it would be to offer an alternative that would provide the same capabilities (but maybe with a different performance/reliability/whatever) for a different price, for any software that Oracle sells which wants to run on an Oracle DB, right? Is the process "Google vs. Oracle about Java" (I understood that it's about the functions/methods declarations and not about the code itself) similar to a theoretical similar situation where DB XXXX would provide the same functions as the ones provided by the Oracle DB?
walrus01 7y ago
Whenever I see any technology news about Oracle, I mentally translate it as "Larry Ellison needs a bigger yacht".
- tyingq 7y ago
  He owns an entire Hawaiian island. It's like he's a real life Bond villian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
  - n0rbwah 7y ago
    Oh, and there are 3000 people living there? It's like he's some kind of feudal lord.
- bitwize 7y ago
  I saw an article written by an Oracle employee about "why Java is relevant in $CURRENT_YEAR". And what was the illustration accompanying the article? The coffee cup logo? A graph? A cartoon? Nay. It was a photo of Larry Ellison's yacht. And suddenly the intended audience of the article came into focus.
tyingq 7y ago
It's 4240 cores total, Oracle Enterprise DB is $47,500 per core. So ~$201M. Java SE is priced per processor. $17.50 per month at that CPU count. And so, a relative bargain per year at 17.50 x 12 x 1060 = ~$222k / year.

Now load any piece of Oracle software onto it and get charged for running 1060 CPUs. Whoops.

rowanG077 7y ago

Oracle doesn't charge per CPU it charges per core. Enjoy paying for 4240 cores!

malux85 7y ago
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, you’re correct!

chrisseaton 7y ago

I believe there's a scaling factor, so lower powered cores like this are charged as a fraction of a Xeon you'd normally use.

tyingq 7y ago
ARM isn't listed on their table, so it slots into "all other multicore CPUs". Scaling factor is 1. So no help there.

MR4D 7y ago

“The only thing that scales better than an Oracle database is their licensing cost! “ - heard years ago from a friend. Not sure of the origination of the quote.

zepearl 7y ago

Aha - I stubled upon this https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10872 https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-10872 yesterday and thought "why would they want to achieve compatibility with Oracle DBs?" => now (I think that) I do understand that it would be to offer an alternative that would provide the same capabilities (but maybe with a different performance/reliability/whatever) for a different price, for any software that Oracle sells which wants to run on an Oracle DB, right? Is the process "Google vs. Oracle about Java" (I understood that it's about the functions/methods declarations and not about the code itself) similar to a theoretical similar situation where DB XXXX would provide the same functions as the ones provided by the Oracle DB?

walrus01 7y ago

Whenever I see any technology news about Oracle, I mentally translate it as "Larry Ellison needs a bigger yacht".

tyingq 7y ago
He owns an entire Hawaiian island. It's like he's a real life Bond villian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanai
- n0rbwah 7y ago
  Oh, and there are 3000 people living there? It's like he's some kind of feudal lord.
bitwize 7y ago
I saw an article written by an Oracle employee about "why Java is relevant in $CURRENT_YEAR". And what was the illustration accompanying the article? The coffee cup logo? A graph? A cartoon? Nay. It was a photo of Larry Ellison's yacht. And suddenly the intended audience of the article came into focus.

tyingq 7y ago

It's 4240 cores total, Oracle Enterprise DB is $47,500 per core. So ~$201M. Java SE is priced per processor. $17.50 per month at that CPU count. And so, a relative bargain per year at 17.50 x 12 x 1060 = ~$222k / year.