Re: Oracle 8i CDROM license

Last time I checked, licencing was per MHZ.

Chris

Stephen Harris <sweh_at_spuddy.mew.co.uk> wrote in message news:FtH4Ls.1LK_at_spuddy.mew.co.uk...
> Kenneth Porter (shiva_at_well.com) wrote:
>
> : I kinda expected that. Any idea what that costs? If it's not too
> : exorbitant, I might be willing to bite. I've got about a dozen users on
 a
>
> Not cheap. Ask your local reseller for a quote. Then argue him down a
> lot (Oracle price list is VERY flexible). If you don't know your local
> reseller, contact Oracle directly.
>
> Oracle licensing is also very wierd. Depending on how they feel today it
> could be per-user, per-CPU, per machine "size"... I think one of the
> cheaper licenses is to run it on a box with only 1 or 2 CPU's, but that
> was last years deal :-) :-)
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access * Received on Mon Apr 24 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT