Re: Oracle Licensing Productivity Packs

Yep, it's bad. It's per CPU, and it has always been that way. Also, you can only use them on Enterprise Edition, etc., etc. Two of the packs can only be bought together, not individually - the two others can be bought or not.

The worst thing about this silly licensing scheme is that not enough customers get to really use the new packs, so they don't get tested, beaten up, improved, and so on.

Mogens

Freeman, Donald wrote:

> There are 4 packs X 3k. When you are talking about database software
> they charge by each cpu it runs on. And, for the productivity packs
> its by the number of cpus on any database you connect to.
> Jeez, It looked pretty simple: 12k for the use of the products
> however we wanted to use them, not, 12k per CPU. The information I
> looked up on OTN is not longer there.
>
> I was just wondering if was the only one in the universe who didn't
> know this. I feel bad that the hardest thing for me to grasp about
> Oracle is how the licensing works.........
>
> We are using other products. We have Toad with DBA pack and also
> DBArtisan. I never use the productivity pack stuff but one of the
> other DBA's does. Guess he'll have to get used to not having it.
>

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