Oracle's New App Server Targets Midmarket

CRN today talks about Oracle's New App Server release that Targets Midmarkets. What's weird about this is that it says it targets squarely against SBS in the midmarket space? OK somehow I think someone's wires got crossed.

I think midmarket is a relative term and midmarket to Oracle probably is a whole lot bigger than I'm certainly thinking. Priced at $4,995 per CPU for this standard edition is a whopping price. Now don't get me wrong...I haven't seen the product or even tried to as of yet. But at $4,995 that's over $3K more than SBS Premium with just 1 CPU and $8K with 2 CPU's...ouch!!

Somehow I think that by design Oracle is trying to hit a bigger market than SBS is designed for. For specialty Oracle apps and other db apps, perhaps this will work but SBS has so much included for a great price that this just seems ludicrous, especially for larger small businesses.

Well I guess time will tell but I won't be out running to get a demo copy of Oracle App Server 10g soon. Perhaps the "g" stands for generous, as in the cost!