Re: Oracle's Licensing Question

From: itrs0 <itrs0_at_netscapeonline.co.uk>
Date: 2000/03/08
Message-ID: <38C633A1.9544E5A4@netscapeonline.co.uk>#1/1

JK

As far as i'm aware the licensing policy is 'concurrent user' not named user, so providing you don't go over the number of users specified in your license you should be OK...

Richard Sumption

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Oracle Technology Consultant
ITRS Limited
itrs_at_bigfoot.com

JK wrote:

> I'd really appreciate it if someone can clarify some of Oracle's licensing
> to me.
>
> Does named user license mean that I have to specify the actual name of the
> person accessing the database to Oracle? While purchasing? People working
> at our company change very frequently and I'm not sure I want to get into
> this type of agreement if that's the case.
>
> Also, most of the connections to the database at my company are from
> software that are automated (getting data from one place, inserting it into
> database, moving it, querying to create reports etc.). How do I figure out
> licenses for these? And please don't say "power unit". We'll have to
> migrate to a different database from Oracle If that's the only way! Can't
> afford it. I can buy a Sun Enterprise 4500 with 6 400 MHz CPUs for a little
> over $100K but I'll have to pay Oracle $360K for the database! Not counting
> any options!
>
> Thanks much
> JK
Received on Wed Mar 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CST