Trip to Estonia

During my holidays I've been in a 4 days trip to Estonia. For Oracle adepts this is the country where Tanel Poder comes from ;)
The trip was made up by myself and my wife, during it we drove ~1700 km. The general idea was to drive around all Estonia (it is not very big country) and look at some (hopefully) most interesting places. Here are 26 most interesting photos:


A view from Munamagi hill, the highest point in Baltics


Tartu Dom Cathedral, it is being rebuilt now


Interesting fountain in Tartu, second largest Estonian city


Rainbow over Peipsi lake


There is 8 km long street through the old villages along the Peipsi lake. It looks like that all lengthways



Ivangorod castle over the river in Russia. This castle is just in the opposite side of Narva river from the Narva castle



Narva castle. This castle is just in the opposite side of Narva river from the Ivangorod castle



Aija along with bells in Narva castle



Northern coast (Gulf of Finland) mostly consists of limestone rocks up to 56 metres high



Sunset over Gulf of Finland



Valaste waterfall is the highest waterfall of Estonia



Estonia has some kind of oil shale, this hill is man-made and consists of slag of oil shales. It is 116 metres high. The picture was taken from a bit lower hill of the same origin, just older one.



Symbol of Rakvere town



Bikes at Palmse manor, which is in the very centre of Lahemaa national park, a beautiful sightseeing place



Jagala waterfall near from Tallinn



Tallinn has more than 2km long old city wall with many towers and everything in very well preserved



Tallinn old town



There was a bit rainy when we crossed over to Saaremaa island (actually Muhu island, which is connected to Saaremaa by dam). The sail is very short just ~20 minutes.



13th century painting in Liiva church, Muhu island



Maasilinn stronghold in Saaremaa



Angla windmills. There were multitude of windmills in Saremaa (~800) these are just a few of forever gone old might.



It is very easy to get to this Kaali meteoritic lake, it is just 17 km from Kuressaare, centre of Saaremaa



A passage in Kuressaare castle, Saremaa



Toilett of Middle Ages in Kuressaare castle, Saremaa



Organ of Kihelkonna church, Saremaa



Kihelkonna church, Saremaa. It was possible to climb up to the tower and look around through the windows

If you enjoyed these you can look also at some of my photos from Latvia.

New improved price list

Obviously fluctuations of $ is affecting also Oracle ;) and as a result we have new global price list. Changes have affected also all Oracle database editions except Express, which is for free. So now Standard Edition One license is for 5 800 (was 4 995), Standard Edition is for 17 500 (was 15 000) and Enterprise Edition 47 500 (was 40 000) per processor. Personal Edition named user plus licence now is 460 US dollars (was 400). All new prices are here. These are the bad news.

The good news are that Oracle has created very informative Pricing and Licensing Rules, Tools page (at least I was not aware of that), which has many links to other valuable documents regarding Oracle pricing and licensing, for example, Oracle product prices in other currencies using Oracle exchange rates.

So get accustomed to new prices ;) and don't forget that there are other editions than Enterprise as well as there are such thing like term licensing (licenses for 1 till 5 years starting with 20% and ending with 70% of list price)!