Re: Question about licensing for webpage...

In the UK Oracle say that if you use a webserver to access database content you automatically have to buy a 32 license pack for the database server, even if one logon performs all the data access.

This was for an intranet app, internet would be far more costly I'd imagine.

Ben Parrish wrote in message <366da5cb.0_at_news1.uswest.net>...
>What are the licensing implications for an installation which is running a
>webpage that uses CGI scripts to access an Oracle database? All the CGI
>programs use the same actual user, and since these programs will only be
>hitting the database for a second or two (or whatever) at a time, what are
>the legal ramifications in terms of user licenses for the Oracle server?
>
>Has anyone done this? Does anybody know the answer? Does anybody know
 what
>time it is? Does anybody really care?
>
>Thanks for any help...
>
>
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Received on Wed Dec 09 1998 - 00:00:00 CST