Oracle Exadata Pricing

“Entry cost may be high but if you compare overall cost with performance, then it's not a big factor.”

“Platinum support patching has suffered lately in performance of the patching event Cost for additional applications such as RAC Cost of the hardware and support.”

“By using IBM POWER one might safe considerable amount from cost of system acquisition and licensing, however having different vendor to manage can introduce more cost and complexity especially when... … Capability to migrate to cloud is a deciding factor in terms of cost saving The ability to serve mix workloads of OLAP and OLTP provides a one stop solution.”

“[Could be] less expensive.”

“Patching can be burdensome and negate cost savings as the time lost can be considerable.”