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Re: News - Oracle Opinion on the matter

From: Frank van Bortel <f.van.bortel_at_vnl.nl>
Date: 2000/03/13
Message-ID: <38CD4FF8.364902D@vnl.nl>#1/1

JK wrote:

> The Oracle rep I spoke to today confirmed that they consider a "named user"
> to be a physical human being. In fact, I pointedly conveyed to him that at
> our company, most of the databases are used by software rather than human
> beings and he still said that those will not be considered users. To be
> absolutely sure (and since I intend to get this clarified and written down
> in a contract) I asked him to confirm that with Oracle's contract
> department.
>
> With only half the hair left on my head...Still can't get any two Oracle
> folks to agree on what "concurrent device" license is. Any Oracle folks
> here, feel free to provide an official definition.
>
> "DNP" <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:38C7AE37.2731_at_btinternet.com...
> > From David P,
> >
> > well one Oracle rep whom I spoke to today Thurs thinks it's per named
> > human being. But he was unable to handle the situation where separtate
> > users are created for application by application (i.e. one schema for
> > each application's objects). Looking at a Oracle 8 Enterprise edition
> > database here I can see ORDSYS, DBSNMP, MDSYS which are separate users
> > in the simple sense of the word but are actually not humans. Another one
> > from another instance is the WebDB user (who owns the WebDB objects).
> >
> > How does Oracle propose to handle the above types of users?
> >
> > Especially when the number-of-discrete-users high water 'mark' (count)
> > will not be able to distinguish between human beings or internal
> > schemas.
> >
> >
> > The plot thickens.

In the case where persons (human beings) cannot be identified, as in your "databases are being used by software", there's only one possible licence: per power unit...

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Met vriendelijke groet/kind regards,

Frank van Bortel
Technical consultant Oracle
Received on Mon Mar 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

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