The Oracle bill alone can't be cheap. They use the Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters (RAC), which comes to, I believe, $40,000 per CPU for the database and another $20,000 or so for RAC. Then there's the annual support fee, which is a percentage of that total (I think 20% or so, but don't quote me on that)...
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The Oracle bill alone can't be cheap. They use the Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters (RAC), which comes to, I believe, $40,000 per CPU for the database and another $20,000 or so for RAC. Then there's the annual support fee, which is a percentage of that total (I think 20% or so, but don't quote me on that)...