Re: Oracle licences, when is a single user a single user?

From: Michael D. Long <lead_dog_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: 2000/06/21
Message-ID: <yWc45.8066$ef.47182@news4.atl>#1/1

Even SQL Server licenses are complex - if you deployed your app against SQL Server 7 as an Intranet then you would need a CAL (client access license) per user. Were the same app deployed to the Internet (and not used by employees of your company), then you could by an Internet connector license (per CPU of the server) - this option allows for unlimited Internet user connections.

The DBMS vendors can't give the products away, else they couldn't continue to operate. If you are looking for dirt cheap, then use MySQL (though I wouldn't).

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Michael D. Long
http://extremedna.homestead.com


"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