> I'm fairly sure that Oracle's pricing scales with the iron you plan to
> use: the more or faster CPUs you want to run it on, the more you pay.
> A large shop can easily get into the $100K license range, but Oracle
> figures that they will have spent way more than that on their hardware.
Exactly right, Tom. Oracle's licensing is typically done by number of CPUs
it will be running on. It is also negotiated from site to site. I've been
at two shops during the negotiation of the licensing, and thankfully both
times we were able to keep it under $100,000.
Have I mentioned lately how much I appreciate the developers? :) I love
PostgreSQL...
Benny
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