Re: Oracle on Solaris virtual server

Randy,

You DO have access to an Oracle sales rep. Oracle has both 'inside' and
'field' reps - the 'inside' reps being telesales.

If you are in the US, phone 1-800-ORACLE1. Otherwise go to http://www.oracle.com/corporate/contact/index.html

Oracle has recently upgraded their licensing to account for 'zones'-style computing. In the previous method you had to license each CPU in the server, either by server or by meeting a minimum number of named users per CPU.

The final answer is between your 'purchasing contract lawyer' and
'Oracle contract lawyers', as each contract can be unique. However, you
can always use http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/index.html and the documents under that page. (Alternate path is http://www.oracle.com > About Oracle > Pricing and Licensing)

Zoning, in Oracle's non-tekkie lawyer terms, would be a type of
'Partitioning' at the hardware level, so search for the 'Partitioning'
doc. This is NOT the same as Oracle's table partitioning capability.

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