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oraclethrow on Oct 27, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: One Windows Kernel

Oracle reseller here:

~59.2M USD on first year (includes maintenance), assuming: - Xeon processors core factor - OEE without any options (no RAC, no partition, etc..) - List price

22% yearly maintenance, about 10.8M on second year and forward.

You won’t pay list price, most likely.

TimTheTinker on Oct 27, 2018 [–]

Consider how much less you’ll spend hiring a whole team of the best DBAs to set up and maintain a competing OSS system.

TimTheTinker on Oct 27, 2018 | [–]

... especially considering that you'll likely have to hire an expensive DBA team to run the Oracle DB anyway.

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