"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
news:cqkiduopdsfoi3sflc9g1c11r29iuueevr_at_4ax.com...
> 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"
which is why per processor is for most folk the way to go. - especially as
you have to buy a certain number of named users per processor anyway :-(.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Thu May 09 2002 - 03:05:46 CDT
