Re: Oracle Licensing - Concurrent users

While we are on the topic of oracle licensing, can someone help to clear up some doubts on named user licensing that I have?

We have an existing 5-named user license for a small oracle 8i (8.1.5) database we have, but right now, it seems to be restricting the number of user sessions to 5 sessions even though the sessions are all using the same userid.

Is this how the named user license is supposed to work? I was under the impression that the named user license was for restricting the number of users which you can create for a database and not the number of sessions. Or am I missing out on some settings/parameters to be defined?

Regards,
Leo

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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:00:30 -0800
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>

> I suggest you talk to your Oracle rep before getting started.
>
> 'Concurrent' licensing is no longer a valid licensing model for Oracle.
>
> They sell by named user or per CPU. Their criteria for making you
> use the CPU licensing is rather broad.
>
> Just went through a licensing audit here. Lots o fun, let me tell you.
>
> While on the subject, does anyone have a good app/spreadsheet
> or template of some kind for tracking Oracle license use?
>
> It needs to track EE and Std versions, named and CPU licenses,
> servers, databases on the servers, users on the databases.
>
> I've cobbled my own stuff together from bits of string and baling wire,
> but I'm getting tired of messing with modifying SQL everytime I want
> a different view of the data, or to see if I can squeeze another app
> in without licensing more users.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jared
>
>
>
>
>
> "Smith, Ron L." <rlsmith_at_kmg.com>
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> 02/19/02 11:14 AM
> Please respond to ORACLE-L
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> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
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> Subject: Oracle Licensing - Concurrent users
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>
> We have been asked to gather statistics on the number of clients using
> Oracle. This is being done to determine if we have sufficient licensing.
> We have about 100 instances to monitor.
>
> Has anyone done this? Any ideas on what "Concurrent users" might mean to
> the majority of people?
>
> We have both Oracle 7 and Oracle 8.
>
> Ron Smith
> DBA
> Kerr-McGee Corp
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