Oracle offers ISVs monthly SaaS platform

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Oracle offers ISVs monthly SaaS platform

Oracle is now offering ISVs the ability to pay by the month for its SaaS (software as a service) infrastructure platform, versus shelling out major sums for perpetual licenses.

The vendor's Platform for SaaS combines a variety of its software, including the Oracle database, Fusion Middleware, Oracle VM and Enterprise Manager, into a stack for building and deploying SaaS applications.

Under the new system, license fees would be paid each month and determined "as a percentage of Oracle's published processor-based pricing for perpetual licenses,"

"For many [SaaS vendors] the price of 'free' for open-source middleware -- be it the LAMP stack, JBoss, Tomcat, et cetera -- is hard to beat,"

computerworld