Re: Oracle licensing with disk replication

It depends - Oracle sales does this and tells you it has to be licensed.

I worked for a company that had this exact issue and what it boiled down to was the following:

"Only servers that have the binaries installed are subject to licensing" - Per the lawyers from that work.

So, [not being a license expert or a law person], I would believe that as long as the Oracle binaries are NOT presented to a running server, there is no licensing implication.
However, if you have installed the binaries AND they are present on a running server, there's a really good chance your in violation of the licensing agreement.

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/olsa-ire-v122304-070683.pdf

If you look at all the different licensing options in the above link such as "Processor" or "Named User" etc, they all refer to "where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running". The lawyers found in our case that we owned the data, while Oracle owns the binaries/software. So we were free to replicate our data to an offsite DR machine as much as we wanted and then we could present the software up to 10 days a year for DR testing. Then remove the software after those tests.

Chris

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 4:01 PM Hubler, Daniel <daniel.hubler_at_aurora.org> wrote:

> We started work on a 2nd data center 2 years ago, and the equipment to
> make it functional is starting to come together.
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> One of the things that is happening is using Hitachi storage and
> replicating everything in the primary data center
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> So we end up with a bunch of storage frames at the 2nd location
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> The folks who manage our contracts are telling us that Oracle corp. is
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> Personally, I can see how Oracle would want a piece of this, because we do
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> The contract folks are suggesting that ONLY Oracle corp. is behaving this
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> None of our other vendors.
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> Does this jive with other people’s experience?
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> Thanks for your input.
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