Re: newbie, User Licences, please help me

"Juan Miguel" <juanmime_at_teleline.es> wrote in message news:<R3Ct9.1080764$sI1.8626522_at_telenews.teleline.es>...
> 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 ?

First, I would strongly suggest speaking to an actual Oracle salesperson if you have questions. Answers you get from a newsgroup aren't going to be particularly helpful if there's a licensing issue down the road.

Oracle defines named users as lumps of flesh you can point to and say "that guy has access to a database". They also count automated processes that access the database as named users. I suspect that you'd need the Oracle sales person to clarify whether something like "I have a cron job that checks the tablespace usage every night and emails it to me" counts as a named user and whether that license would also cover the cron job that checks for new database objects.

> 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 ?

Assuming one person uses one machine, you'd need 40 named user licenses. If you have two people using each machine, you'd need 80 licenses. If you have 10 people and each of them uses 4 machines to access the database, you'd need 10 licenses.

> I came from the Open Source world, and I don´t understant what Oracle or IBM
> means with user licences.

Note that in addition to getting named user licenses, you can license based on the size of the machines you're running Oracle on. That tends to be simpler in terms of accounting since you just look at the processing power of your box.

Justin Cave Received on Wed Oct 23 2002 - 18:52:54 CDT