I believe that the only alternative to Oracle's power unit (MHz) licencing
scheme is the 'named user' scheme. You buy a licence for a specific named
user to access the database. From your message, I would think you would
need either a power unit license or 100-200 individual licenses.
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Richard Armstrong
bmt <bmatthewtaylor_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:39502FC2.40C32DE_at_hotmail.com...
> I'm trying to work this out with Oracle but was wondering in others have
> been through this routine.
>
> I have developed a web interface for a database project using Oracle as
> the backend. It uses apache/Jserv (yes I know Oracle have a webserver
> but at the moment I am familiar with Apache)
>
> I can configure the system so that it only permits x simultaneous
> connections to Oracle. (still testing this thoroughly but so far it
> seems solid)
>
> As I understand a single user licence permits one user at a time to
> access Oracle database. Most network installations provide for licence
> sharing. (ie 100 users, 10 licences for software X, licence sharing
> results in only 10 people at a time using the licences)
>
> It gets a bit complicated since my system only grabs the "single user
> licence" when a user presses a submit button to process a query. Since
> the DBMS takes milliseconds to process most queries, a "single user"
> licence could concievably support many users.
>
> Oracle dont seem "happy" with the concept.
>
> Any advice? I dont want to get on the wrong side of licencing but the
> system will not have the user load to justify a MHz rating style
> license. (currently expecting <5 simultaneous users, potentially 100-200
> different users over a week.)
>
> The arguement is prol redundant since when the system is put into
> production it will be sitting on an existing server with existing Oracle
> licence. At the moment I am working in off line development mode.
>
> Mat
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 21 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT
