ORCL: Oracle Streamlines Pricing with New Licensing Models, Approach Provides Customers with Consistency Across Oracle Applications

Continuing its commitment to provide customers with simple, flexible and transparent licensing models, Oracle today announced that it has streamlined pricing across the Oracle(r) Applications portfolio, including JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and Oracle E-Business Suite products.
With a number of pre-existing and newly acquired products, each with its own licensing metrics, Oracle's new simplified licensing model creates consistency across all product lines. Oracle now offers licensing models for Oracle Applications with simplified pricing designed to ensure that customers can find the pricing and licensing solutions that meet their specific business needs and can derive the most value from their software. The new models include:

* Component Model - simple a la carte pricing primarily based on named user metric;

* Custom Application Suite Model - provides the ability to create unique custom bundle based on a customer's specific business needs;

* Enterprise Applications Model - based on an enterprise metric, such as revenue or number of employees, and provides unlimited application usage; and

* SMB Model - offers specific SMB pricing for customers that generate less than $100M in revenue; also providing additional partner support in tools, pricing and territory protection.

Designed for "transitions to success," the new pricing models offer a range of options that align with customers' specific business goals as needs evolve. Successful transitions that enable customers to grow from one phase of their business to another with software licensing that supports each is a simple and consistent approach.

"We are combining the best of Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards licensing programs to provide our customers with a variety of flexible licensing models from which to choose," said Jacqueline Woods, vice president, Global Pricing and Licensing Strategy, Oracle. "These new pricing models provide transparency and simplicity and helps ensure that our customers are getting the most value for their IT expenditures."

In keeping with the company's philosophy of providing flexible licensing options, customers can use either the new pricing models or previous licensing models when purchasing additional products from old price lists. Newly released products will be offered under the new pricing models. Oracle's award-winning, 24x7 global support for all Oracle Applications will continue to be offered at 22 percent of net license fees.

The Oracle Software Investment Guide provides comprehensive guidelines regarding its global software pricing and licensing. Oracle continues to provide customers with the most transparent pricing models to help them best manage their current and future software investments. Oracle's Software Investment Guide and all of its policies, metrics and options are published online on Oracle.com.