On Wednesday 20 April 2005 03:34, Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you are a dev shop building apps on top of Oracle (apps that will > then be sold to wealthy corporations that will shell $$$$ for Oracle > licenses) Oracle will let you install as many Oracle setups as you like > (they realise this helps selling their products) > > If you want to host these free developer instances on RHEL Red Hat will > enforce through up2date a full license per dev/test system. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/compare/server/ $349 list price for ES basic edition doesn't sound too expensive really. If you have a large number of machines then the thing to do is to call sales and get a quote, there are bulk discounts. > Especially if you try to optimise > hardware occupation by having multiple separate system images (one for > every Oracle version you want to support, for example) and RHN wants to > charge you one license per system image (even though they are all on the > same physical hardware and can not be run separately) Fair point. Have you spoken to sales about this? > Now since you can't run RHEL, you will run FC or Centos or whatever. But > once you've qualified your product on this other Linux version, how long > do you think it will take some beancounter to realise you can sell your > product on this other Linux system, and avoid paying RH altogether ? > (remember, less $$$ for RH = more customer $$$ available for your part > of the system) Selling Oracle on Fedora or Centos is not an option. Oracle doesn't support them, so anyone who pays for Oracle will want to pay for RHEL. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
