Re: Oracle licensing term "named user"

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 18:37:15 +0200
Message-ID: <cqkiduopdsfoi3sflc9g1c11r29iuueevr@4ax.com>

On Wed, 08 May 2002 10:08:52 -0600, Thomas Gaines <Thomas.Gaines_at_noaa.gov> wrote:

>All -
>
>In preparation for a discussion with my organization's purchasing
>people, I'm reviewing our Oracle license usage. Long before I
>arrived on the scene here as DBA, my organization purchased a
>license for "100 named users on an unlimited number of servers,"
>to quote our IT manager. I realize that only our Oracle license
>sales rep can definitely answer my license-related questions, but
>before I talk to him, I wanted to hear your opinions.
>
>What exactly is a "named user"? Would each noninternal-Oracle
>process in the v$session view be a named user? Would the use
>of MTS affect the way that we count our named users? What
>about other forms of connection pooling? I'm woefully uninformed
>in this area, unfortunately.
>
>My group delivers web-based maps, using Oracle as the
>back-end repository for the data. The map server makes numerous
>Oracle connections, but they're all as the same Oracle user. If each
>of these sessions can be grouped together as one "named user", we're
>on Easy Street. Otherwise, we may be running up to some licensing
>limits.
>
>Thanks for your time,
>TG
>

One of our customers is the government lottery organisation. They have 3000 outlets with a terminal, connected to various front-end systems and back-end systems. None of these terminals has direct access to the database. On average 3 people have access to the terminal.
Now guess how many licenses Oracle wants to charge?

a) 4 (the number of backend systems)
b) 3000 (the number of outlets)
c) 9000 (the maximum number of possible connections)

Mind you, this is a contract renewal, and they currently have 4 licenses.

Every individual connection, which includes web connections is considered to be a chargeable "named user"

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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