From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Tue Nov 23 07:54:41 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iANDset21789 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:54:40 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id iANDseB21783 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:54:40 -0600 Received: from localhost (freelists-183.iquest.net [206.53.239.183]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 59A6572D80B; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:01:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([206.53.239.180]) by localhost (misc.avenirtech.net [206.53.239.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32305-71; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:00:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id C872F72D772; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:52:31 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: How do you evidence Oracle Licences purchased ? Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:41:54 -0000 Message-ID: <1C6E45ADB2EC324F9553E468ABFE0F6301C5D1B9@UKWMXM04> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: How do you evidence Oracle Licences purchased ? Thread-Index: AcTQqSLCwliP/6XdRNOxsA2UGGfwygAuQaig From: "Hallas, John, Tech Dev" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Nov 2004 13:41:55.0432 (UTC) FILETIME=[324FFE80:01C4D162] X-archive-position: 12608 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: John.Hallas@gb.vodafone.co.uk Precedence: normal Reply-To: John.Hallas@gb.vodafone.co.uk X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at avenirtech.net We have someone within Change Management who owns an Excel spreadsheet. A lot of people have read access to that spreadsheet. We (DBA's) are not allowed to install Oracle on a server until the = server name appear on that spreadsheet. The owner of the spreadsheet has to have seen evidence from either = Purchasing or our Oracle account manager that licenses have been = purchased before he updates the spreadsheet This seems to work very well, even within a large orgainisation with = multiple methods of acquiring both the software and the licenses John -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org]On Behalf Of Hemant K Chitale Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:30 PM To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: How do you evidence Oracle Licences purchased ? Till a few years ago, Oracle used to provide us a Licence Order Form=20 detailing the licences purchased. Apparently, for the past few years, the only evidence of the Licences=20 purchased has been in the actual Invoice -- and this invoice, in my organisation, goes direct to = the=20 Finance Dept, even if seperate groups/OUs have purchased licences. Although the purchaser does send me information on the CSI which he=20 receives from Oracle Support, and I enrol myself as the MetaLink administrator for that CSI, this, in = my=20 opinion wouldn't be adequate evidence of the products and Licence quantities [Users or=20 Processors] purchased. [Printing the "List Licences" listing from MetaLink doesn't help as=20 quantities aren't presented -- in fact a recent purchase of EE + RAC + Partitioning just showed up as=20 seperate "Oracle Enterprise Edition" entries, without the actual Option and the Processor counts]. So my question is, if seperate groups within your organisation purchase=20 Oracle Licences, how do you get evidence of the Products and Licence Quantities and actual file=20 *paper evidence* of it ? Hemant K Chitale http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital =20 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l