Consolidation with Sun and Oracle

Oracle Pricing with Solaris 10 Containers

The new Solaris Containers functionality in the Solaris 10 Operating System improves system utilization by enabling you to securely run multiple, software-isolated applications on a single system, allowing you to easily consolidate your servers.

Oracle now recognizes Solaris 10 Containers as licensable entities, known as hard partitions. With this announcement, Solaris 10 customers can now develop a software consolidation strategy that is cost effective from both a hardware and software perspective. Disparate application environments can be brought together on the same system yielding a single administrative platform and operating system with multiple independent Oracle containers. Development, test, and production Oracle instances can run on the same machine with predictable behavior.

Oracle customers running a Solaris 10 environment can now license only the processors or cores that are running the Oracle binaries. Prior to the recognition of Containers as hard partitions, customers were required to license all of the processors or cores in an entire domain. Customers win through consolidating their IT infrastructure costs under Solaris 10 and can achieve higher utilization rates without compromising service levels, privacy, or security.