Re: Simple Licensing Question

About a year ago, I bought a "development" license for Oracle 8i at about $1.50/power unit (now called universal unit). I think they may have eliminated that particular license, but, in general, Oracle seems to be pretty generous (they better be considering their prices) when it comes to using their products for development (as opposed to production) purposes. I'm sure you can negotiate something with them. They're not going to charge you for a full production license for your QA box.

• Rich

"Sai Nagar" <sainagar_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:qdDr6.128$Bx2.185349_at_news.pacbell.net...
> We're planning to run Oracle 8i on a
> Sun-based production environment (a website),
> and I think I understand how the licensing works
> for this (UPU - based on # CPUs, Mhz).
>
> However, before we get there, we need to create
> a development and QA environment, which will
> be lighter weight boxes of the production (cheap
> sun boxes). The developers and testers will connect
> via network to it.
>
> Question is, do we need to pay Larry the Big bucks for the QA
> and development environment? I can't find anything
> in Oracle licensing which makes any distinction. We
> did sign up for OTN, but am not sure if that lets
> us do development.
>
> What is commonly done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sai Nagar
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 14 2001 - 17:19:10 CST