Re: licensing

Thank you, I always wondered. Luckily for oracle and for me, I am one of those honest ones. I just never understood how that all worked. You were most helpful.

bh

Pete Sharman wrote:

> Brian
>
> By default, Oracle has no licensing check in its software. We rely on
> good faith and honesty, as you say. I think the reasoning here is that if
> we get a lot more people on than originally licensed, a lot more people
> will say what a great product it is (hopefully!) and buy more.
>
> Having said that, there are two ways Oracle has for checking license use.
> Firstly, there is a group in Oracle that will, at your request, come on
> site to try and help you sort out how many licenses you need. When I
> worked in Australia, we had a client who asked for this because they had
> lots of boxes with Oracle on it, and as you may be aware, Oracle licensing
> has changed over time. At one stage it was box based, then concurrent
> users, and so on. The end result was the poor client had no idea if they
> were meeting their license requirements, so this group came in (can't
> remember the name of them now, and it's probably different in the US
> anyway), and helped work out how many licenses they should be paying for.
>
> The second approach is that the DBA can actually limit the number of
> connections to a single database using LICENSE_* parameters in the
> init.ora file. You can say I only want to allow 50 users maximum, and I
> want users 46 - 50 to get a warning that you're approaching the license
> limit. Of course, this is for one database only, so you need to manage
> this across multiple databases by allocating a licensed number of users to
> each database.
>
> HTH.
>
> Pete
>
> Brian Howard wrote:
>
> > I am a newbie at licensing. How does this work. Is there a physical
> > limitation which only allows the licensed number of users or is this a
> > good faith and honesty issue? For example is someone only has a
> > developers license on Oracle for 5 users, what happens if ten users
> > attempt to use the program? Will it work or forbid it? Is this pretty
> > much the same for other software as well i.e. Microsoft.
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Pete
Received on Wed Jul 21 1999 - 19:13:57 CDT