Count me in!
> the user will pay a fee – calculated by Oracle estimated on the size of your estate
> It would ... eliminate the potential for nasty surprise
Yeah right. Instead of *counting* how many licences you actually use, they get to decide how many they *think* you might be using. Or: every year you have to negotiate afresh to come up with a figure agreed by both sides.
Sounds like a way to increase your exposure to risk, rather than reduce it.
Or maybe it's like this:
- you pay a fee based on your current counted usage
- you are safe and secure in the knowledge that during the year you can deploy more instances without having to buy individual licences
- instead, you are stung at the end of the year when it's time to count the requirements for the following year
If so, it just means you get (up to) one year's free trial deployment, after which you pay the usual rates. Standard marketing trick.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
