[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/10/2021 3:57 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2021-08-10 kl. 19:47, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 8/10/2021 1:30 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>                                                              At least
>>> at one time one could download a kit (not the latest) with no support if
>>> one were DEVELOPING a COMMERCIAL application.  While that is
>>> non-commercial (as long as it doesn't make money), it is a SMALL subset
>>> of non-commercial use and definitely NOT some sort of hobbyist or
>>> community license.
>>
>> Oracle allows free development for a lot of their products.
> 
> I think that is generally true for any product in the "Enterprise" class.
> There is an Enterprise version of Oracle "classic" and any Rdb version
> (there is really only one for each platform) is always "Enterprise".
> So Rdb is always free for your development system, as I understand.
> Test and prod is differnt and with weird rules.
> 
> We where quoted for Rdb on a new 2 CPU DS25 Alpha test system. Oracle
> claimed that the lowest quote was 25 "users" per CPU or 50 users in
> our case. For a test box with at most 2 developers testing new stuff.
> That project was canned, Rdb was about 5 times the VMS cost and 10
> times the cost of the DS25 hardware. For a test system...

Oracle pricing can be "a bit high".

:-)

Has anyone gotten a message from Oracle about how Rdb will
be licensed on x86-64?

Traditional Oracle licensing would be a list price if 47500 dollars
per 2 cores of CPU.

And Oracle traditionally count all cores in the physical
box not VCPU's allocated to VM unless Oracle VM software
is used.

And with modern 16/24/32 core CPU's then that would
be "a bit pricey".

Arne