June 26, 2008
Oracle’s hefty price increases
Jeff Jones of IBM wrote in to point out that Oracle is slathering on the price increases. I quote:
Some examples, comparing Oracle Technology Global Price Lists from December 2007 and June 2008 (prices are per processor):
- Oracle Database Enterprise Edition: $40,000 to $47,500 = 18.75%
- Berkeley DB XML – HA: $12,000 to $13,800 = 15%
- Database Gateway for DRDA: $40,000 to $46,000 = 15%
- Database Gateway for Informix: $15,000 to $17,500 = 16.67%
- Express Server: $40,000 to $47,500 = 18.75%
- Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus: $255,000 to $295,000 = 15.69%
- Hyperion Essbase System 9: $160,000 to $184,000 = 15%
- Universal Content Management: $100,000 to $115,000 = 15%
Good news for Oracle shareholders, I guess, that Oracle thinks it can pull this off. But also good news for vendors of lower-cost alternatives, especially lower-cost ones such as EnterpriseDB and Dataupia.
Categories: Dataupia, Emulation, transparency, portability, EnterpriseDB and Postgres Plus, Oracle
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They can always look to move from Oracle to our Postgres Plus Advanced Server offering with Oracle Compatibility to help reduce overall costs.
Um, Bob, doesn’t Postgres Plus Advanced Server cover only the first item on Curt’s list of 8 items? But I recognize that #1, the core RDBMS where EnterpriseDB claims compatibility, is the big one.
Actually, here’s a question that I might as well post here: Does EnterpriseDB provide technology that replaces Oracle XML DB for native XML storage and retrieval? If not, do you see demand for this capability? I admit that my question stems from a narrow concern, the ability to manage XML-annotated text in the DBMS without shredding the XML and mapping the data into relational tables.
Seth
Nope, we see little demand for XML storage, our V 8.3 has support for XML data type. If someone wants great XML storage then they should look at Mark Logic as a great alternative to Oracle XML DB.
My employer (ITA Software) already resents the big bucks we have to pay to Oracle for our OLTP system (airline reservations). It’s almost the only non-open-source software we use. I am already looking into alternatives for the future; this makes it even more urgent. (Recommendation to anyone in my position: take a close look at EnterpriseDB’s latest technological advances.)
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