Comments on: Oracle. Oppressive. Costs. https://thomaslarock.com/2011/12/oracle-oppressive-cost/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Anon https://thomaslarock.com/2011/12/oracle-oppressive-cost/#comment-6410 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:57:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=7129#comment-6410 In reply to Denny Cherry.

Denny,
The Oracle Enterprise license of $47,000  is per processor with annual support at $10,000,  so with 8 cores that comparison is less drastic.
Still very expensive but their website lets you browse the store for prices and options.

]]> By: Denny Cherry https://thomaslarock.com/2011/12/oracle-oppressive-cost/#comment-4430 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:44:33 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=7129#comment-4430 Dale,
Even with the pricing changes for Enterprise goes core based not socket based SQL Server will still be cheaper than Oracle. Oracle Enterprise is $47,000 per core (based on the current Oracle price book) while SQL Enterprise is $6873.75 per core.

MySQL is great until you need support from them or a maintenance agreement. FaceBook uses MySQL buy pays a ton annually for support from MySQL.

]]> By: An infrastructure DBA https://thomaslarock.com/2011/12/oracle-oppressive-cost/#comment-4394 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:20:28 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=7129#comment-4394 Tom, RE: Azure – I’m not so certain that most shops will settle for a turnkey, let alone external, database solution. A Mom and Pop Shop, yeah. A medium size public company, I dunno.
If you want your business covertly mined, easily subpoenaed, latent over a WAN, at additional risk for compromise, in a cookie-cutter design / functionality, and all Microsoft all the time, then I guess it’s for you. (And one other thing: It is possible that Microsoft may not exist in 10 years. Or it could be as relevant as AOL. Heck, the USA may not exist in 10 years).
But with Azure you can assume you have backup, DR, and SLA met, though, or issue a chargeback to Microsoft.

]]> By: sqlrockstar https://thomaslarock.com/2011/12/oracle-oppressive-cost/#comment-4378 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:55:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=7129#comment-4378 In reply to Dale.

Dale,

Even with the changes, MS is still a lower cost option, I believe. And soon enough it will all be Azure anyway.

]]> By: Dale https://thomaslarock.com/2011/12/oracle-oppressive-cost/#comment-4363 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:45:57 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=7129#comment-4363 The licensing changes are still a bad move, one of the key factors in getting SQL into businesses and keeping it there is the lower costs. When it comes round to designing and proposing a solution big numbers scare decisions makers off.
Perhaps there will be more MySQL on the horizon…

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