Hi all, it looks as my company wants to buy a product requiring Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle DB. We also plan to buy 2 new servers with 2 Xeon CPUs each. Red Hat seems to have "Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Virtual Datacenters" for $US 1999 per year (https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html) I guess two licenses are the right solution if you want to install Red Hat on bare metal and VMs and containers on it (in short, not being restricted by licensing) Then comes Oracle licensing.. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf "Standard Edition One" $US 5800 per processor. Makes it $US 11 600 per machine (or $US 5800 in case I restrict it to a VM with one CPU - is it actually possible?) Is it possible to setup in any meaningful way a second DB server as a stand-by server without paying an additional Oracle license? I guess not.. And then there is $US 1276 "software update license & support". Without that no updates? If it all gets too expensive I may need to look at MS SQL server. I am not very keen to go back to this again but it is the second available option and it seems to be much cheaper.. but I have to work it out in detail too (in defense to MS: SQL Server was performing well and reliable wherever used) In short, my boss would not like to pay more than needed but we need to be sure to have a working setup at the end. Regards Peter