Standard Edition 2 ?!?

Oracle published a new MOS announcement saying with the beginning of Oracle Database 12.1.0.2, Standard Edition (SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1) are replaced by Standard Edition 2.

SE2 will support 2 socket systems and is RAC aware. So it seems, that it will be allowed to run on two 2 socket servers (which reflects 4 sockets) and not more.

That would affect customers running SE on 4 socket systems…
And it seems that SEO and SE installation will need to be migrated to SE2, what ever that will mean in $€’s… Costs are expected between SEO and SE, but as usual on the higher end…

Let’s see what will happen….

Link to MOS:
2027072.1 Oracle Database 12c Standard Edition 2 (12.1.0.2)