Re: Standard Edition Feature Availability

Jim Smith wrote:
> >Interesting comment. Care to expand?
> >
> <unwarrantedAssumption>
> I assume he means the 4 CPU limitation.
> </unwarrantedAssumption>
>
> It would be interesting to see the actual figures for the size of
> servers in oracle deployments.
>
> My suspicion is that the majority, or at least a substantial minority
> are small systems which SE or SE1 would cover.

It is even worse. It is not the 4 CPU limitation, it is the MAXIMUM 4 CPU CORES CAPACITY limitation and that's the problem. Even with licensing factors that for some processors can decrease the number of the cores up to the number of the processors (e.g Intels) is is quite limiting. I'm working for a big shop, so we have never ever acquired any other edition than the Enteprise, but while looking on even low end servers available today, most of them are extendable to at least 6 CPUs and therefore not usable for SE.

Quote: "Oracle Database Standard Edition can only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 4 single core processors cores."

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Dusan