The Professional DBA

Oracle’s latest price list was published today!

Oracle Technology Global Price List

There are increases scattered throughout the various licensing options, most notably:

Oracle Enterprise Edition

• $7500 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $150 increase in per-user licensing

Oracle Standard Edition

• $2500 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $50 increase in per-user licensing

Oracle Standard Edition One

• $805 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $41 increase in per-user licensing

RAC

• $300 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $60 increase in per-user licensing

Active Data Guard

• $800 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $20 increase in per-user licensing

Advanced Security Partitioning, Advanced Compression, Real Application Testing, Label Security

• $1500 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $30 increase in per-user licensing

Diagnostics Pack , Tuning Pack, Change Management Pack, Configuration Management Pack, Provisioning Pack for Database

• $500 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $10 increase in per-user licensing

Internet Application Server Enterprise Edition

• $5000 increase in the base per-processor licensing
• $100 increase in per-user licensing

Enterprise Single Sign-On Suite

• $10 increase in per-user licensing

This is certainly not an exhaustive list and I’m sure that there are many, many other changes. Rounding up your Enterprise’s licensing and product use information for acquisition planning purposes may be a prudent and proactive task for this month!

Brian Fedorko