Re: Oracle Licensing Issue

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:07:38 GMT
Message-ID: <_gHue.32607$J12.10492@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com>

DA Morgan wrote:

> Andreas Sheriff wrote:
>

>> Hi,
>>
>> My eyes are starting to turn inside out.
>>
>> Does anyone have a good grasp on Oracle licensing?
>>
>> We currently have Oracle Enterprise 8.1.5 installed.
>> Is 8.1.7 considered an update or another product altogether?

>
>
> 8.1.7 is considered unsupported and obsolete.
>
> The only reason to move to 8.1.7 from 8.1.5 would be if you
> made really bad purchasing decision from a third-party vendor
> in which case you would need to know what the original license
> said.

Another reason would be to migrate to 9i, which is only supported coming from 8.1.7.4, not 8.1.5.

AFAIK, Oracle RDBMS licensing covers all versions. It's the CPU or named users you are licensing (capacity), not the version. But you need paid support to download patches.

-Mark Bole Received on Thu Jun 23 2005 - 18:07:38 CDT