The buyer side guide to the Standard, Enterprise, and Suite ladder. Processor versus Named User Plus, the core factor math, restricted versus full use, and the quiet default to Suite that costs estates seven figures.
Oracle WebLogic is one of the most over licensed products in the middleware estate. The reason is rarely the sticker price. It is the quiet default to WebLogic Suite, the core factor most buyers count wrong, and the restricted use entitlement that turns full use the day a custom application lands on the domain.
This paper sets out the three edition prices from the Oracle Technology Global Price List, the processor and Named User Plus metrics, the core factor math worked end to end, and a benchmark estate that shows the Suite premium in dollars. Every figure in the worked estate is a benchmark range, not a quote.
It is written for the procurement lead, the asset manager, and the architect who has to defend the number before a renewal or an audit. Read it, then talk to us before you sign.
Oracle WebLogic Server is licensed per processor or by Named User Plus, across three editions: Standard Edition at $10,000 per processor, Enterprise Edition at $25,000, and WebLogic Suite at $45,000. Standard Edition counts occupied sockets, while Enterprise and Suite count cores times the core factor.
WebLogic Suite bundles Enterprise Edition with Oracle Coherence and Java SE Suite, and lists at $45,000 per processor against $25,000 for Enterprise Edition. Most estates that buy Suite never run Coherence in production, so they pay a $20,000 per processor premium for components they do not use.
On Enterprise Edition and Suite, you license cores times the core factor, which is 0.5 for x86, so 64 physical cores become 32 processor licenses. Standard Edition ignores the core factor and counts occupied sockets instead.
Restricted use WebLogic, sometimes called WebLogic Basic, ships bundled with Oracle products such as Forms and Reports and may run only that bundled product. Fredrik Filipsson notes that deploying any custom application onto a restricted use domain triggers full use licensing for every core.
WebLogic Standard Edition is cheaper on dense, few socket servers because it counts occupied sockets at $10,000 each, with no core factor. On multi socket servers the socket count erases the advantage, so run the socket and Named User Plus numbers first.
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