Re: Licensing for test and development servers?

I've seen a lot of shops being fully licensed (i.e. producttion, development and testservers). One shop just recently renewed their licensed and part of the deal was that devlopment/test goes for free now. AFAIK all databases should be licensed, except for the test and study purposes at your home system. However, lots of execptions arise when Purchase and Sales people are putting deals together. If you want the offical Oracle guidelines, download and read the Software Investment Guide (SIG) from oracle.
Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 22:36, Jamie Kinney wrote:

> We have production licenses. My question is around licenses for the
> servers which are only used for development, test, QA, etc... Do you
> have separate licenses for these servers?
>
> -Jamie
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:04:40 -0400, Powell, Mark D <mark.powell_at_eds.com> wrote:
> > This is not legal advice (see someone with a valid law practice for that)
> > but it would appear that as long as you are working on a single copy of a
> > program that you are not using for either your own internal use and that is
> > not running at any other sites then you are developing and do not need to
> > purchase a license. I would think program here could be plural as in you
> > are developing an application that might consist of a dozen programs.
> >
> > But as soon as you use the programs to conduct training you must buy a
> > license or if you start using the application either in-house or somewhere
> > else you must buy licenses. Conducting training in advance of implementing
> > the application either internally or externally would probably be a trigger
> > point for requiring a license.
> >
> > This is the best I can figure it. We run production so we have licenses
> > that I believe cover us, but it never hurts to try to keep up with this
> > stuff. When in doubt dump the problem on management. If you are management
> > then pass it by legal. Better safe than sorry.
> >
> > IMHO -- Mark D Powell --

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