RE: Licensing a disaster recovery system

Peter,

>> since we are not running instances on
>> the disaster recovery box, we do not need
>> a separate license for it. When we loose
>> the production box we will transfer the
>> license to the disaster recovery box.

Technically I believe the (just) installing Oracle software *is* the license...not some much what you do (nothing) with it (excluding additional options and/or CPU vs. named user licensing). However, I believe that Oracle has technical verbiage regarding non Data Guard fail over servers. Meaning I don't know the exact answer but Oracle Corp. has addressed this subject.

Paul,

>> it *could* be possible to maintain a
>> user-managed standby database with the
>> recently-released 10g R2 XE product

...
>> I have not yet downloaded the product or
>> read any of the licensing issues and limitations.

Not so fast;

     http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2005_oct/103105_databasexe_finalsite.html
     Oracle Press Release
     "Oracle Database XE allows developers, DBAs, ISVs and students the opportunity to..."

Nothing in here about Commercial, Government and non profit "for business" use.

I like your thinking though.

Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA

-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Paul Drake Sent: Fri 11/4/2005 2:55 PM
To: peter.schauss_at_ngc.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Licensing a disaster recovery system  

On 11/4/05, Schauss, Peter <peter.schauss_at_ngc.com> wrote:
> We are in the process of configuring a disaster recovery system for four
> small Oracle instances. Our approach will be to install Oracle on the
> box, restore backups of the production databases for test purposes, and
> then shut down the copies instances and delete them. The box will not
> be used again until we either need it for a real recovery or we are
> required to test our recovery procedures again. Note that the Oracle
> software will remain installed on the box and we will be keeping it
> patched to the same level as the production system.
>
> My management's rationale is that, since we are not running instances on
> the disaster recovery box, we do not need a separate license for it.
> When we loose the production box we will transfer the license to the
> disaster recovery box.
>
> Would Oracle agree?
>
> If it matters, this is Oracle 8.1.7.4 on AIX 5.2.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter Schauss
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Wow. It just occurred to me that if I were running Oracle Database Server Standard Edition One 10g R2 ... it *could* be possible to maintain a user-managed standby database with the recently-released 10g R2 XE product, once it hits beta.

Provided that the database doesn't exceed 4 GB. Provided ... (more after reading the license guide for this product).

Why do I think that somehow ... this won't work? That somewhere out there a "feature not enabled" message will pop up when performing an "alter database open ...".

Mix in a dose of "virtual machines" ... and multiple databases might be able to be supported on a server.

I have not yet downloaded the product or read any of the licensing issues and limitations.

Sorry that I'm no help with respect to your original question ... except to refer you to the oracle licensing guide and your oracle sales person.

Paul

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