From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Oct 17 11:44:49 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9HGinoW012733 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:44:49 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9HGimvX012723 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:44:49 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id DCB4A2066E7; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:44:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12693-06; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:44:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 428B72066C0; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:44:45 -0500 (EST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6603.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Subject: RE: License Management Services Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:42:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4001DEAF7DF9BD498B58B45051FBEA6502E09419@25exch1.vicorpower.vicr.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: License Management Services Thread-Index: AcXTN1g1jNbqsvpmQlOrZy09VUMozQAAke2w From: "Goulet, Dick" To: , Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Oct 2005 16:42:33.0462 (UTC) FILETIME=[C5C62160:01C5D339] X-archive-position: 27078 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: DGoulet@vicr.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: DGoulet@vicr.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 Can also happen if you have a dispute between what your paying for & what your "using". We ran into one some years ago because of that. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of stephen booth Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 12:23 PM To: david_oracle-l@hotmail.com Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: License Management Services On 17/10/05, amit.sharma@uk.nomura.com wrote: > Not had any dealings with them myself but heard they will be reviewing the number of licences you have bought. > They will check for number of cpu's and users accessing the number of databases on those servers, and then compare with what you have bought. > It could be check where they are suspicious or It's a routine process where they pick a company randomly sometimes to fill their timesheets I guess :) > Sounds like the BSA (Business Software Alliance), aka the militant branch of Microsoft, who tend to only pounce when they get a tip off about a company running more than they're licensed for. Has anyone in IT left lately due to being sacked/layed off or complaining of being mistreated, most tip offs to bodies like BSA are from people who recently left a company and feel the need to 'get back at' the company relatively safely (and pick up a bounty if any over use is discovered[1]). Stephen [1] Which is pretty much always. I've yet to come accross any company of a reasonable size that could be sure it was correctly licensed. -- It's better to ask a silly question than to make a silly assumption. -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l