Re: To ODA or Not?
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:57:11 -0400
Message-ID: <CAAaXtLDKJYhp7gucA2zjQHkob9nxx7td=XMZO7dutO3=Fz=xpw_at_mail.gmail.com>
Ah. And there we are.
The rules *have* changed. Cool.
Its a long time since I have seen Oracle start giving away free something they used to charge for. I hope this is a trend that continues.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/03/2015 10:34 AM, Mladen Gogala (Redacted sender mgogala_at_yahoo.com
> for DMARC) wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
> Clusterware is free. You can install clusterware without paying and use it
> to fail-over MySQL service. Oracle licenses are not free.
>
>
> Thanks Mladen. This reflects a change since last time I looked at the
> clusterware license, and you are absolutely correct. Confirmation at
> http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DBLIC/editions.htm#BABHIAAF which
> states:
>
> "
> Oracle Clusterware
>
> Oracle Clusterware provides cluster membership and high availability
> monitoring and failover. Oracle Clusterware may be used to protect any
> application (restarting or failing over the application in the event of a
> failure) on any server, free of charge. Oracle will provide support for
> Clusterware only if the server is running an Oracle product, which may
> include Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris, that is also under Oracle support.
> "
>
> /Hans
>
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