ORACLE’S STANDARD EDITION 2

IMPACT ON LICENSING

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New

On September 1st 2015 Oracle released Oracle Standard Edition 2 (SE2)

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WHAT'S CHANGED

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May only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2 sockets.

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max of 16 CPU threadsLimited to a

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Real Application Clusters..can only be licensed on a maximum of 2 one-

socket servers.

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8 CPU threads per instance

and also for RAC...

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Changes to Named User Plus MetricNow min of 10 per server not 5 per customer

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WHAT ABOUT SUPPORT?

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SE and SE1 customers will continue to receive Premier Support for existing licenses through the terminal

release 12.1.0.1. until September 1st, 2016.

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For release 11.2.0.4 of SE and SE1 this is is currently within Extended Support.

The Extended Support fees have been waived for the first year of Extended Support until January 2016.

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SE and SE1 will be removed from the Price List on December 1, 2015

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HOW DO I MIGRATE?

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but talk to Madora first to understand the costs!Talk to your Oracle rep

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Existing SE and SE1 Customersmust migrate to SE2 if they want to upgrade to 12.1.0.2

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Zero cost for Oracle SE to SE2 migration

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but .. Uplift fee on support of 20%for Oracle SE1 customers

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RISK AREAS

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Check List•Check your servers have only 2 sockets or less

•If using NUPS and SE then check you are still within

the newly set minimums if you migrate.

•If using RAC make sure the 2 nodes are only

running 2 sockets in total not the 4 as was allowed

before.

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summary

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In a nutshell•Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2 12.1.0.2) will

replace SE and SE1

•SE2 will be limited to 2 socket servers

•SE customers migrate for 'free'

•SE1 customers pay 20% lift on support

•If using NUPs it’s now 10 NUPs min per server

•Seek independent advice before migrating

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