Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Pricing
January 22, 2010
Short honk: I was fooling around with the updates to my dataset of search and content processing vendors. I came across a note to myself about Oracle Secure Enterprise Search pricing. I neglected to put this information in this Web log, allegedly the repository of information I want to remember. Silly goose! If you want to snag a copy of OSES 10g as the product is labeled, you can find that a perpetual license is $34,500 per processor. What’s not clear to me is if a quad core chip is on a single die, does that die constitute a single processor fee of $34,500 or will a single quad core processor trigger a license fee of $34,500 * 4 or $138,000? I looked around for an answer, but I did not land upon that detail. First year support costs $7,590. So a dual quad core machine and a fail over system costs either $69,000 or $276,000 plus support. I located the pricing information on the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search page.
The description of the product which seems to be 10g is:
Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) is a standalone product that allows you to find relevant documents faster in your information repositories. It crawls, indexes and makes your corporate intranet searchable through a Web-style search. It organizes content from multiple repositories by extracting valuable metadata that can be used in portal application, provides effective search with the best relevance ranking in the industry – and finds what you want. It eliminates the need for coding against hard-to-use low-level APIs. It provides the best database integration and most secure search in the industry and includes:
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- The ability to search and locate public, private and shared content across intranet web content, databases, local disk or file servers, IMAP email, document repositories, applications, and portals
- Excellent search quality, with the most relevant items for a query spanning diverse sources being shown first
- Sub-second query performance
- Highly secure crawling, indexing, and searching
- Integration with Desktop Search tools
- Ease of use, administration and maintenance
If you are an Oracle DBA, OSES makes sense. But if you are a penny pinching CFO, you might want to compare the Oracle perpetual license fee with other vendors’ products. You can keep tabs on Oracle search news at the Overflight page on ArnoldIT.com. Lots of tweets about Oracle, but not much hard news. I wonder why.
Stephen E Arnold, January 21, 2010
A freebie. No one at Oracle paid me to write this pricing item, nor did I get any money to omit pointing out that the Oracle flagship database is at Version 11 and OSES is at 10. I will report this to the Oracle users in the Old Executive Office Building where some financial types work, often late at night.
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Oracle per Processor Pricing Explained (kinda):
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list.pdf
Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a processor basis may be accessed by your internal users (including agents and contractors) and by your third party users. The number of required licenses shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores of the processor by a core processor licensing factor specified on the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table which can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts. All cores on all multicore chips for each licensed program are to be aggregated before multiplying by the appropriate core processor licensing factor and all fractions of a number are to be rounded up to the next whole number. When licensing Oracle programs with Standard Edition One or Standard Edition in the product name, a processor is counted equivalent to an occupied socket; however, in the case of multi-chip modules, each chip in the multi-chip module is counted as one occupied socket.
For example, a multicore chip based server with an Oracle Processor Core Factor of 0.25 installed and/or running the program (other than Standard Edition One programs or Standard Edition programs) on 6 cores would require 2 processor licenses (6 multiplied by a core processor licensing factor of .25 equals 1.50, which is then rounded up to the next whole number, which is 2). As another example, a multicore server for a hardware platform not specified in the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table installed and/or running the program on 10 cores would require 10 processor licenses (10 multiplied by a core processor licensing factor of 1.0 for ‘All other multicore chips’ equals 10).
Should be interesting to see what happens to Oracle pricing with MySQL being part of their shop, or vice/versa. At least in Search there’s independent Lucene/Solr open source to choose from, without that Oracle monopoly pricing!
Cheers
Paul