(Disclaimer: Oracle is cool. They make a good, albeit expensive, product. This is meant to be sarcastic, so if you recently spent over $100,000 on Oracle 8i Enterprise and you are all flustered over this, deal with it)
Wow, what a deal!

You must be using some of their wacky pricing schemes! On an internet box you have to use the UPU -- Universal Ripping-You-Off Unit.

For us (dual PIII-750):
1500 UPU = $150,000
Minus a volume discount (some random number so it isn't a total rape): $37,500

Total: $112,500

Let me repeat:
WOW! WHAT A DEAL!

And the weird thing is, I was talking with an Oracle tech to see Sybase ASE vs Oracle 8i Enterprise and he said they were virtually identical. That doesn't explain the factor of ten price difference!