Comments on: A data warehouse pricing complication: Software vs. appliances http://www.dbms2.com/2008/10/11/data-warehouse-pricing-software-appliances/ Choices in data management and analysis Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:21:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2008/10/11/data-warehouse-pricing-software-appliances/#comment-99283 Curt Monash Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:25:01 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=603#comment-99283 Dave, Quite right. The lack of charging for development/test is nice, and in line with industry trends (charge for run-time tool use rather than development seats, open source, etc.) I believe Oracle offers free development options that work well for small OLTP/general-purpose apps, to develop and test functionality, but not so well for DW performance. As for charging per terabyte -- Oracle's contention is that one can use the same licenses, down the road, to manage more terabytes than one does now. My rejoinder is that this would be more compelling if they weren't also trying to charge more money each year per unit of processing power .. CAM Dave,

Quite right. The lack of charging for development/test is nice, and in line with industry trends (charge for run-time tool use rather than development seats, open source, etc.) I believe Oracle offers free development options that work well for small OLTP/general-purpose apps, to develop and test functionality, but not so well for DW performance.

As for charging per terabyte — Oracle’s contention is that one can use the same licenses, down the road, to manage more terabytes than one does now. My rejoinder is that this would be more compelling if they weren’t also trying to charge more money each year per unit of processing power ..

CAM

]]> By: Dave Menninger http://www.dbms2.com/2008/10/11/data-warehouse-pricing-software-appliances/#comment-99271 Dave Menninger Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:17:26 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=603#comment-99271 Pricing can be a complicated subject as your article correctly points out. However, the pricing decision is not divided solely along software v. appliance lines. Software only licenses can vary from vendor to vendor as well. New vendors not only innovate with respect to product offerings, but often innovate with respect to licensing and business models. Vertica offers several innovative pricing and delivery options. First, we offer complete flexibility. You can purchase a software-based license, an appliance with software included, or a cloud-based license. Second, the software license is based on the amount of data you are loading into the system, not the amount of hardware you are using. Whether you need to add more hardware or upgrade your hardware at some point has no impact on the cost of the license. In addition, your development and test systems are also included in the license fee. We believe this pricing model makes it easier to understand and plan for the costs associated with an analytical database. Pricing can be a complicated subject as your article correctly points out. However, the pricing decision is not divided solely along software v. appliance lines. Software only licenses can vary from vendor to vendor as well. New vendors not only innovate with respect to product offerings, but often innovate with respect to licensing and business models. Vertica offers several innovative pricing and delivery options. First, we offer complete flexibility. You can purchase a software-based license, an appliance with software included, or a cloud-based license. Second, the software license is based on the amount of data you are loading into the system, not the amount of hardware you are using. Whether you need to add more hardware or upgrade your hardware at some point has no impact on the cost of the license. In addition, your development and test systems are also included in the license fee. We believe this pricing model makes it easier to understand and plan for the costs associated with an analytical database.

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