What makes Oracle Database Enterprise Edition worth the money

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Oracle Database Enterprise edition costs $47 000 per processor. I wonder what features make it worth this money?

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My personal opinion (and do feel free to mark it down if you don't agree) is that the people at Oracle aren't that dumb. They know their marketplace and segment there offerings to match. So they price it based on what they believe the customer is willing to pay for the features available.

From the customer perspective i'm sure Oracle's clients do look at the feature set and services they offer. Then if the ROI proposition is sound and the features are required then thats what will be paid.

Having said that the $47,000 is the list price and depending on the company size and influence with Oracle this can be reduced when negotiating contracts.

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Try to re-configure em completely

emctl stop dbconsole
emca -repos drop
emca -repos create
emca -deconfig dbcontrol db
emca -config dbcontrol db

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Linux – Migrate Oracle database from Windows to Linux

You can try looking at the Upgrade Guide for 11g

One option would be to do an upgrade from 9iR2 to 11g on the Windows box, then migrate the 11g database from Windows to Linux. One complication for that is that 11gR2 isn't available on Windows. Also, I think you'd need to upgrade to the terminal release for 9iR2 (I think 9.2.0.8) before upgrading the database.

Another option is the imp/exp option. You can do a full exp of the source database, but you'd want to do schema level imports into the destination (as you don't want to override built-in objects with 9i versions). You'd need to manually recreate PUBLIC objects (such as public synonyms, directories, database links). DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL can help extracting the SQL for that.

If the data volumes are small enough, I'd go for the latter option. If they are too large, and the exp/imp takes too long, I'd probably go with the former where you should be able to use cross-platform transportable tablespaces (which came in with 10g) to speed up the data move. That may mean waiting a couple of months for 11gR2 on Windows or moving to 11gR1 on Windows, doing the migration at that level then (optionally) upgrading to 11gR2 on Linux.

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