Re: RE: stdby and Oracle licensing

Sadly, "Oracle Sales" is the *last* organisation you should believe on this subject. While I don't think they consciously *lie*, I do know that they are commonly *wrong*. In fact, "almost always" might be more accurate... (Although, to be fair, I usually only ask the really "tricky" questions. Like rules for partitioned servers. Let's not go *there*!)

As it happens, "Standby" (DataGuard) is a feature bundled with Enterprise Edition, and does not carry a separate licensing fee. Contrast this to "Partitioning", "Spatial", or "RAC", which are "options", and *do* require separate licenses.

So, in that sense, Oracle Sales did not lie. They just failed to mention that although the software needed to implement Standby is "free", the database server itself is not. "Oops".

By the way, if you read the OLSA, you'll find that Oracle Sales gets a "Get Out of Jail Free" card, in the form of a clause entitled "Entire Agreement". Under this, they can *tell* you *anything*, even in writing, but it doesn't mean a thing if it contradicts the OLSA.

You gotta read the fine print... ;-)

Anyway, have the rules for licensing Standby Database *servers* changed? Not in at least 3 years. Maybe longer. But I'm sure that they *have* changed at some point... :-)

• Original Message ----- From: David <thump_at_cosmiccooler.org> Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 3:33 pm Subject: RE: stdby and Oracle licensing

> I'm referring to the standby piece specifically. I'm clear on
> failoverand don't think that has changed.
> Has the standby agreement changed or have I just been clueless this
> long.I have even posed thi to ORacle sales last year and was told:
> "Standby is
> covered under EE and has no additional cost"
>
> Now, it costs additional EE licenses under the same model to cover
> bothservers...
> Did'nt always used to be like that I'm quite sure.
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> David
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> > The failover database pricing has been this way for years. But
> finding> the official document on Oracle's web site is not always
> easy and I lost
> > the link. The link was posted on this list just a couple of months
> > back.
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