Re: Oracle 8i Licensing Question

harbinger666_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> In article <397ED70E.F6B55054_at_hotmail.com>,
> Frank <fbortel_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Doubt it, but it probably depends on who you're talking to.
> > Best approach would be to turn it down, based on the licencing schema
> > Oracle uses: MHz * cpu * $$$$; you will never use both machines at the
> > same time, so only 1 * (MHz * cpu * $$$$) applies, not two!
> > Oracle doesn't run on the other machine, until it takes over, right?
> >
> > (Hot standby is a different story, I managed to get the second licence
> > for peanuts)
> > hth, grtz, Frank
> >
>
> That's correct, the standby node cannot even access the Oracle binaries
> as the shared volume group cannot be opened concurrently. It will only
> get access once the live node fails, and once the live node is fixed it
> will re-join the cluster as the standby with no access to the Oracle
> binaries etc......
>
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From The Oracle Standpoint, you have to order two licenses. These are two distinct machines.
Yours Stefan Received on Wed Jul 26 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT