RE: Oracle Licensing - Concurrent users

Thanks for the information Suhen. Seems like my company purchaser got the wrong information when he bought the license.

Regards,
Leo

-----Original Message-----
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:28:31 -0800
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>

> Leo,
>
> The named user license is concurrent per session/connections to the
> database.
> Although you have 1 userid defined you will not be allowed to have more than
> 5 users connect to the instance simultaneously.
>
> Regards
> $uhen
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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> > cc:
> > Subject: Oracle Licensing - Concurrent users
> >
> >
> > 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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