Can you explain what you mean with nodes? Are these real end users or ar these workstations / devices that are used by multiple end users? In the first case you would need 10 nup licenses (btw the price below was including 1 year support). In the second case you need to license the real end user (even if only 1 of them can work at a node at a time), in which case it can be better to license the cpu of the server (then you don't need to license the clients). enterprise or SMB depends on which features you need. For a comparison of the features available between editions: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/license.112/e10594/editions.htm#CJACGHEB regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer From: RP Khare [passionate_programmer@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 09 November 2010 16:03 To: D'Hooge Freek; cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Why is Oracle unaffordable? Freek, Just wanted to know whether Standard Edition One is an enterprise or SMB software. Secondly, I want a license for 1 Windows server and 10 nodes. How would the below mentioned product fit into it? ................ Rohit. > From: Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx > To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:17:35 +0100 > Subject: RE: Why is Oracle unaffordable? > > Just as quick addition to the licensing cost for small companies. > If you look at the cost for a standard edition one edition with named user > licenses, then you see you would pay less then € 900 for 5 named users (the > minimum number of NUP licenses). I don't think this is expensive for > enterprise software. > > Of course, when you want a 5 node cluster replicating to another 5 node > cluster, the cost is a little bit higher. > Freek D'Hooge > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l