Oracle licensing

I have a question about Oracle licensing policies.

Suppose I have a database running on a server. This database serves provides OLTP services to a client application. If I write the client application to use a DCOM object such that the first time the client is started the DCOM object will create a connection to the database and each subsequent lauch of the application on other workstations would share the original DCOM object which would then broker transactions for the desktop application. Finally, suppose there are 200 client workstations which could potentially share this DCOM object concurrently.

The other choice would be simply to have each workstation have its own COM object which would connect to the database via multi-threaded-server.

Since there is really only one connection with the DCOM object, would that require one user license or would it be no different then using COM object in that the licensing requirements would be based on the maximum number of concurrent users regardless of how many actual connections to the database occur?

Appreciate any answers. Received on Fri Mar 02 2001 - 07:08:11 CST