RE: Oracle license requirements for unused options

From: Goulet, Richard <Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 08:37:47 -0400
Message-ID: <6B0D50B70F12BD41B5A67F14F5AA887F10B85AC7_at_us-bos-mx022.na.pxl.int>

In a past audit from Oracle License Management Services the people there stated very clearly that they could not force anyone to pay for installed options that were not being used since some of those options are used by Oracle for their internal purposes. Partitioning in Enterprise Edition comes immediately to mind. You must install it and you can't deinstall it because some of the internal sys objects are partitioned which a check of a 11.1.0.7.0 EE database shows:

TABLE_OWNER                      COUNT(*)


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MDSYS                                         2
SYSTEM                                     38
SYS                                            220

Now they definitely can't make you pay for an option that you're not using, but they are.
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Wed May 18 2011 - 07:37:47 CDT