Due to the region, the pricing is high for our customers. Because we are going with the global price. And with the global price, we who are in Africa, for instance, customers actually do have a hard time. So that is really setting it back for our customers.

The product is moderately priced. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. There are no additional costs associated with the tool.

The pricing is not very high as compared to its competitors. 

Our licensing is annual, but I am unsure of the exact cost.

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution.

This product is WebLogic based, hence it can be both resource hungry as well as expensive from a licensing point of view.

Based on my knowledge, Oracle SOA Suite doesn't have user-based licensing. It has a system-based licensing model, so you pay for whole systems.

Oracle SOA Suite is an expensive solution, so it's a four out of ten for me. My company is switching to another solution because of the cost, but there's no additional cost associated with Oracle SOA Suite except for the standard fees.

Do some upfront work to figure out what you're likely to want to do with the technology and get some meaningful volumetrics before you start negotiating on licensing. The Oracle PaaS platform offers an opportunity to try and see and understand the art of the possible before you start ramping up. Without this, you may find that you buy into license constraints to keep the cost down and then later regret the constraints. Understand how to get the most of the pre-sales engagement. Oracle can offer a lot here to help you bottom out the right solutions to make sure you get it.

Done right you can see an impact pretty fast. It is always a good idea to package it with other Oracle products in order to take advantage from the discounted rates. Your Oracle Sales Manager should be able to advice what is the best way to have the maximum savings.

Advice on pricing and licensing will differ from one organization to another and their business needs. I rate the pricing for this solution a seven out of ten.

It’s a bit costly.

Oracle does offer a competitive licensing price if you are purchasing a suite of products from them to maximize the ROI. However, if anyone chooses selective products from the stack, the percentage of ROI is less.

High price, now with Oracle cloud, there are more options of pricing.

Do proper capacity planning. Engage an expert in the field to assist in defining what the requirement is, what approach to follow when licensing (Oracle processors, named users, metered/unmetered if cloud), and then size to the actual needs throughout time. This approach will almost certainly result in much cheaper license costs, probably less than other competing products that have less flexibility when licensed.

It is always good if there is a win-win situation for client and service providers, and there is definitely some room for improvement in this area.

It is necessary to evaluate the requirement regarding the platform usage and what the main operation area of the platform will be. Because depending on that, the initial sizing of the infrastructure has to be done. Typical questions are:

• How many instances do you expect per day/month/year?
• What is the average amount of data?
• Should the environment have High Availability?
• What kind of integrations/processes will you have - stateless or stateful, long running processes derived from the requirements, and evaluated at the very beginning?

A topology blueprint should be created and validated against these requirements.

Oracle SOA Suite is not the cheapest product suite around, but it has many features by default which you will probably need to create, manage, and maintain yourself when implementing other products (High Availability, monitoring, management, and alerting, for example). For a small company, you might not want to pay for a lot of features you might not use. Be a bit careful when implementing SOA Suite on virtualization platforms when licenses are concerned. Also, named users and unlimited license agreements require thought.

Compared to open source platforms, Oracle isn't cheap. Companies will need to decide if they prefer open source, use, for example, a paid community support and use a framework which may be less mature, or use Oracle, which means a real mature framework, full support, and stability.

Pricing has been an issue for smaller customers. Fortunately, the cloud will now give more options.

You need to make a good estimate of the licensing costs for the first year.

Oracle pricing is expensive. Support is based on your license. AWS is much better than Oracle in this regard.