Re: Oracle out the door

Four "sockets", actually. Sadly, though, the term "socket" may no longer mean what you might expect it to...

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Derek Rodner < derek.rodner_at_enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> Right, but SE is maxxed out at 4 procs, so it will be a very small RAC
> configuration.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Allen, Brandon
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:53 PM
> *To:* jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com; jhthomp_at_gmail.com;
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> *Subject:* RE: Oracle out the door
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> I believe RAC is included with SE in 10g+, at least according to page 3 of
> this doc http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing.pdf:
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> "Effective with the release of 10g, the Oracle Database Standard Edition
> product includes the Real Applications Clusters database option."
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> Extra maintenance costs are a different story - I've never run RAC so
> can't comment on that.
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> Regards,
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> Brandon
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Schneider
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> I can't imagine that you need to be paying those extra tens of thousands
> of dollars for RAC; won't the extra licensing and maintenance costs of RAC
> come out about the same as those three servers your eliminating?
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