Oracle Makes it Even Easier to Own Industry’s
Fastest,
Most Reliable and Cost-Effective Database Software
Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
to Benefit from
New Two-Processor, Full-Featured Clustered Database
Hong Kong, February 6, 2004 - Oracle
announced new pricing for Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One. The
price for Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition One has been lowered to
$4,995 per processor and the maximum server capacity has been extended
to 2-processors. Standard Edition One also is available with Named User
Plus licensing at $149 per user with a minimum of five users. With this
announcement, SMB customers can now get the world’s fastest, most reliable
database at much lower costs.
In addition, for those customers looking to build highly
available and scalable information technology systems, Oracle's database
clusters will now, for the first time, be offered for free to those who
purchase Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition. For these customers, the
maximum server capacity is 4-Processors in a cluster. Customers can start
small and grow their business using Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g
as their business priorities change. Using Oracle’s database clusters,
customers can benefit from the highest levels of availability and reliability
at lower costs than competing databases.
“Oracle understands that all customers, regardless
of size, want a secure and reliable IT infrastructure on which to build
and maintain their businesses,” said Jacqueline Woods, Oracle vice
president of Global Practices, Global Pricing and Licensing Strategy.
“Today’s announcement underscores Oracle’s commitment to providing
smaller organizations and our partner community with a world-class database
at affordable prices. Making our entry-level pricing the same as Microsoft’s
shows that we’re serious about competing head on with SQL Server.”
For all technology products, Oracle offers both per
Processor and per Named User Plus licensing models. For more information
on Oracle Pricing and Licensing, please visit: www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing.
About Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 10g is designed to be effectively deployed on everything
from small servers to the biggest symmetric multi processor (SMP) servers
and from clusters to enterprise grids. It features automated tuning and
management capabilities that make it easy and cost effective to operate.
Oracle Database 10g’s unique ability to natively manage all data –
from traditional business information to data mining, XML documents, and
spatial/location information – make it an ideal choice to power Online
Transaction Processing, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Content
Management applications.
The Oracle Database is available in Enterprise, Standard,
Personal, and Lite Editions:
| Enterprise Edition: |
Industry-leading performance, scalability, and reliability for OLTP,
decision support, and content management |
| Standard Edition: |
4-processor version of Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application
Clusters |
| Standard Edition One: |
2 processor version of Standard Edition at an attractive entry-level
price |
| Personal Edition: |
Full-featured version for individuals, compatible with the entire
Oracle Database family |
| Lite Edition: |
Complete infrastructure to build, deploy, and manage mobile database
applications |
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company.
For more information about Oracle visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com/hk.
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