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Whether you're a lone developer, small or mid-size business or large corporate enterprise, there's an edition of Oracle tailored to meet your business and technical requirements.
Oracle Database 11g is available in a choice of editions; Standard Edition One, Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. All editions are built using the same common code base, allowing your database applications to scale easily from small, single processor servers to clusters of multi-processor servers without changing a line of code. Additional options for enhanced performance, scalability, availability, security and manageability are available with Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition.
Licensing
The Oracle Standard Edition One, Standard Edition and Enterprise editions of the database can be licensed using the Named User Plus metric or the Processor metric.
Hardware considerations:
Hardware processing capacity is taken into account when licensing Oracle.
Standard Edition One licenses may be used on a server with the capacity to support no more than two processors.
Standard Edition licenses may be used on a server or CLUSTER with the capacity to support no more than four processors.
Enterprise Edition does not place constraints on the hardware specification. A factor is applied to the processor count to provide a ‘discount’ when multi-core processors are being used. This can lead to confusion as processor architectures become more complex, Oracle provides a matrix that details the more common processor models with the discount factor that is to be applied in each case.
Processor licensing:
For Standard Edition One and Standard Edition, a license is required for each occupied socket (installed physical processor). The number of cores is irrelevant.
Enterprise Edition requires a license for each processor. In the case of multi-core, the core count after discount determines the number of licenses required.
Named User Plus licensing:
A Named User Plus license is required for every individual human and non-human user (device) that connects either directly or indirectly to the database. This type of license does not accommodate sharing or concurrent usage.
Standard Edition One and Standard Edition both require a minimum of 5 Named User Plus licenses per organisation, not CPU or server.
Enterprise has a minimum of 25 per CPU or ‘discounted’ core count.
Named User Plus covers multiple servers provided the minimum user count is met per server. For Enterprise, four separate servers each with one single-core processor require a minimum of 100 Named Users (25x4) even if only 70 users access the servers. This is more economic than buying 70 licenses for each of the 4 servers (i.e. 280).
Term licenses:
These are useful for those running short term projects or start-ups that need to keep costs down until they are properly established. Pricing is based on the following
4-Year Term License at 60% of Perpetual License
3-Year Term License at 50% of Perpetual License
2-Year Term License at 35% of Perpetual License
1-Year Term License at 20% of Perpetual License
Contact our sales team for assistance with Term Licences
For the complete and legal set of definitions, please refer to the Oracle License and Services Agreement on Oracle's website.