Integration

Hi,

I have been toying around with JDeveloper 11g and Oracle SOA Suite 11g and finally I can now say I am in a position to recommend to start moving the organisation's business processes and enterprise integration gradually to this framework. However I am slightly confused what the Oracle SOA Suite license would cover.

It is not clear what components are covered with the SOA Suite 11g license (for example: is the OSB also included? it is a separate download. Is CEP included?)

Also, will we need a separate Oracle database license for it to really work? If yes what database is needed (Enterprise, Standard etc.)? or does the SOA Suite license cover the use of a database too in some way, as long as it is used for SOA and BPEL etc.?

I presume that for a reliable framework we would need at least 2 nodes with clustering at both application level and database level, so we really need to do our homework well with regards to the costs required.

thanks.