Oracle news - the good and bad
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A short update on some Oracle licensing and cloud news, some good and some bad. We can start with the good news.
Oracle Licensing & Cloud News
Our take: We predict the adoption of autonomous database services will increase.
2. Oracle support increases.
Oracle will for contracts starting 1st of Dec 2022 increase the technical support fees by 8%. If you do not already have it, negotiate technical support caps to prevent Oracle support increases.
Recommend: If you are planning to enter any Oracle negotiation, purchasing Oracle cloud or licenses include the negotiation of technical support fees into it.
3. Oracle has announced new cloud tools to right size your Oracle database cloud service. It simplifies and optimizes Oracle database license and consumption in Oracle cloud.
4. Oracle has announced Compute@Cloud at customer, this is a smaller version of OCI Dedicated region, it allows customers to run Oracle cloud in their own data center. It starts at one rack and can scale up. Compute cloud@customer use the Oracle Server X9-2 which is the same hardware platform that i used for the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. This platform has dual Intel Xeon P8358 processors with 32 cores. You can scale up to hundreds of servers in many racks. The services are provisioned in the public cloud OCI console.
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Our take away: If you strip the word "cloud" Oracle is transitioning into a "consumption based license model" where they are moving away from perpetual licensing. We think this is a positive move and will undoubtely be solution that is targetted for customers that does ont want to commit to OCI Dedicated regions which had a $ 6m annual commit. Compute@cloud at customer starts at $ 1m annual commitment. We primarily see this as a potential vehicle for support reductions while also gaining value from Oracle cloud services.
4. Oracle on Azure optimization
Possibly the best way to optimize your Oracle licensing on Azure is to make use of constrained vCPU concept.
Database workloads are rarely CPU core heavy, they require memory and high I/O bandwith.
Azure pre-made instances are often not ideal to license Oracle on.
Read more from Microsoft here
If you have an Oracle ULA that is up for renewal in 2022 or 2023, we recommend you read our guide Oracle ULA - Failure or success its up to you.
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2 年The conmitment on dedicated region C@C also just dropped to $1M consumption per year for min 4 years vs previous $6M per year for 3 years. Just watch that consumption is different between ExaCC and ExaCS because former has an upfront fee where it is a monthly fee for ExaCS. That might be better unless you want discounts because then you buy a UCC and that is use it or lose it so seems to cancel out some of the benefit of the consumption model. Also all OCI/DRCC tooling is geared towards using RAC so if you BYOL and like my company., use single instance databases (either everywhere or just in dev/test) then that might be a challenge.