Oracle enterprise database actually has a retail license cost of $47,500 per cpu core. On x86, there is a two-for-one license discount. In my setup, I have an

Oracle enterprise database actually has a retail license cost of $47,500 per cpu core. On x86, there is a two-for-one license discount. In my setup, I have an nfs automount set up from a 12-core machine to my 8-core database. The rman backup and the scp happen locally, but yes, the lzip runs on the compute server.