My company makes yearly payments toward the licensing costs attached to the solution. My company's clients, who have paid for the licensing costs attached to the solution, have also engaged with some third parties to receive technical support for the product.
The price is expensive however there is better hardware installed for the price. The application running on it is very important to us and this makes the price worth it.
Infrastructure Manager - Oracle SCM at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2021-11-18T21:19:47Z
Nov 18, 2021
Oracle SPARC Servers are expensive to manage, this is because after five years Oracle will increase the support charges for the hardware. The licensing policy for Oracle is different for Intel and Sparc. It will cost you less if you use your Oracle hardware with Oracle SPARC Servers. Once we cross five years, the parts will not be locally maintained by Oracle. Sometimes we need to wait for a week, 10 days or a month to get the replacement. Even though you are having support from Oracle, you have to wait. It is a very bad thing.
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My company makes yearly payments toward the licensing costs attached to the solution. My company's clients, who have paid for the licensing costs attached to the solution, have also engaged with some third parties to receive technical support for the product.
The hardware is expensive but it has very rich virtualization features that make it economical. You can have many VMs hosted on a single box.
The price is expensive however there is better hardware installed for the price. The application running on it is very important to us and this makes the price worth it.
The licensing is flexible.
Oracle SPARC Servers are expensive to manage, this is because after five years Oracle will increase the support charges for the hardware. The licensing policy for Oracle is different for Intel and Sparc. It will cost you less if you use your Oracle hardware with Oracle SPARC Servers. Once we cross five years, the parts will not be locally maintained by Oracle. Sometimes we need to wait for a week, 10 days or a month to get the replacement. Even though you are having support from Oracle, you have to wait. It is a very bad thing.