Yea...I vaguely remember something like that being
said to our company back in 2000. I spoke to couple of
Oracle Reps and they said as long as you are using the
DB for HA environment you don't need to license it
separately. I don't know whats going on now.
Cheers,
RS
--- "Post, Ethan" <Ethan.Post_at_ps.net> wrote:
> Not sure this is correct Rachel. I sat in a
> conference call today with some
> folks and an Oracle rep and it was stated that any
> type of HA software being
> used would require additional licenses for the all
> possible servers in the
> failover cluster. So even if Oracle is not running
> on server B until A
> fails I would need a license for B. Of course the
> whole reason for the call
> was to discuss Oracles "evolving" licensing model.
> Can anyone else confirm
> or deny?
>
> - Ethan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:38 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> yep... but it's because the database is being used,
> even if you don't
> use it for read-only.... the fact that the
> executables are running and
> the database is mounted is why you need the license.
>
> Now, if you have a copy of all the files, and the
> executables on
> another machine, but DON'T run anything, THEN you
> don't need another
> license
>
>
> --- dgoulet_at_vicr.com wrote:
> > Jon,
> >
> > Wrong. You must license the second server
> identically to the
> > original. The
> > reason is that a standby database can be used as a
> read only copy of
> > the
> > original.
> >
> > Dick Goulet
> >
> > ____________________Reply
> Separator____________________
> > Author: Jon Baker <jcb_at_netsec.net>
> > Date: 4/2/2002 8:03 AM
> >
> > I believe as long as it is only stand-by, no
> additional licensing
> > required.
> > Only one system is "functional" at a time.
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