Re: Oracle Licensing Situation.

Paul Wolfowitz wrote:

> I have a client that purchased software and hardware from a failed
> startup. On each of the two machines the software is dependant on an
> Oracle 8.1.7. How do i find the state of the licensing for these two
> oracle servers?
>
> The business is using oracle right now and i suspect if they dont have
> licensing we would migrate to another database that was cheaper, but
> its unclear to me how we can determine current state of licensing
> without exposing our current use of oracle to oracle?
>
> -Paul-
>

The answer to the question can only come from Oracle.

But for you to assume that you could save money by migrating to another database is wishful thinking.

Forget the cost of the migration. Forget the cost of training. The price difference between Oracle Standard
Edition, and especially Oracle Standard Edition One and other commercial RDBMS products is so small
you'd be hard pressed to buy a latte' with the difference. Don't do price comparisons with the Enterprise
edition unless you actually require partitioning and other EE features.

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