Re: oracle database for academic

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:13:01 -0800
Message-ID: <1076022726.596006@yasure>

Hans Forbrich wrote:

> 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.

Depending on your organizations specific license terms most likely you can not do this.

If you have, however, kept up your support contract ... then you can.

I'd suggest a call to your Oracle sales rep. to answer the question.

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Received on Thu Feb 05 2004 - 17:13:01 CST