Re: newbie, User Licences, please help me

Juan Miguel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are going to develope an application for one of our clients. We are
> thinking that Oracle could be the DBMS used in this aplication. We are
> thinking in Oracle Database Standard Edition 9i, but when we read the
> documentation in Oracle's website, we see that the licence is paid by the
> number of users("named user plus perpetual") ...
>
> ¿ What users ?
> It refers to the logical users created in the database ? (for example:
> CREATE USER muyuser ....)
> It refers to the number of client pc's that access to the DB ?
> It refers to the number of databases created ?
>
> Our application only need a user in a DB, where can be established
> concurrent connections from several clients (our software creates the
> politic of loging and operations in the system). ¿ Is this posible with a
> one user license ? or ¿ how many licences are needed for 40 PCs connected to
> the DB ?
>
> I came from the Open Source world, and I don´t understant what Oracle or IBM
> means with user licences.
>
> Please, help me.
>
> Thanks

You information is incorrect ... contact Oracle directly.

Daniel Morgan
http://www.extension.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp Received on Wed Oct 23 2002 - 17:44:43 CDT