Re: oracle database for academic

Bill Van Dyk wrote:
>
> How about an organization which has a purchased license for 8.1.6 and would
> like to use 8.1.7? Can I just download 8.1.7 (well, I know I can download
> it) and use it? How many users can log in to the downloaded version? How
> do you apply licenses to it if you install it an do find out you need
> additional users?
>
> Thanks.

If you purchased licenses, you have a license agreement which may or may not be customized. The ONLY people that can answer your questions are your license management people (purchasing department or possibly legal council) together with your Oracle rep. Any answer you get here will be speculation.

In general: you buy a license at a specific version. Assuming 'perpetual', you can use that license at that version forever. Most of the license agreements I've seen don't have any provision for updates, upgrades or patches; if you want upgrades, you buy the 'update' maintenance package. Again, you might have a special agreement - read it!

If you download from OTN, you use that software under the terms of the OTN license agreement. It's not that difficult to read. Received on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 15:55:22 CST