Oracle-L: RE: Important - Oracle Pricing on Standby/DR/Failover databases

From: Post, Ethan <Ethan.Post_at_ps.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:39:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00531897.20030116083942@fatcity.com>

This is interesting...

So in the event of a true DR where a DR center has servers co-located and are available for hundreds of potential customers do we need to pay for the license on the box we use at the DR center if it is used more than 10 days a year? Does one pay after they have gone over the 10 day limit? What if the DR center gives you a box much larger than the one you are currently licensed for, say you go from a 4 CPU's to 12?

Is is possible for hundreds of customers to be paying for Oracle licenses on just a few boxes at the DR center, with the assumption that they might be utilized?

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Tony,

Good to see your fingerprints here!

I had always gone on the theory that I would need at least two of the licenses, one for production and one for the standby server. I hadn't thought about one for the DR site, on the theory, that since DR was up and running ONLY when production was not, it was the same "software". I had had that information from my Oracle sales reps as well.

Now it seems I'll have to go back to my IT operations people and have them verify that we are in compliance with the licensing. Or that they are ready to fight it. We do have an overall company license (Sony is a fairly large user) so I don't know how that affects our licensing as well.

I hadn't realized that as an Oracle DBA I also had to be a lawyer!

Rachel

--

Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
--

Author: Post, Ethan
INET: Ethan.Post_at_ps.net

Fat City Network Services    -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com
San Diego, California        -- Mailing list and web hosting services
---------------------------------------------------------------------

To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 10:39:42 CST