Re: Oracle User License .... Help Me, please !!!

From: Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_nospam.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:23:57 GMT
Message-ID: <xzDt9.36852$Sk6.3370205@news1.telusplanet.net>

Karsten Farrell wrote:

> Juan Miguel wrote:

>> I came from the Open Source world, and I don?t understant what Oracle or
>> IBM means with user licences.

>
> You are not alone. Oracle has so many different licensing plans that
> some of their sales/marketing folks can't understand them all. They have
> licenses for the type of CPU, for the number of CPUs, for particular
> hardware platforms, for the number of concurrent users, for the number
> of "seats" that connect, and so on ad infinitum. Your best bet is to
> call one of their salespeople and ask them to tell you what their
> license would be in your particular case. I can't verify this, but I
> think they use whichever license brings them the most revenue. :)

I was under the understanding that they (Oracle) have done away with most of the "complexity" in licensing by doing away with power units etc.

I think that now you have only a few choices, named user (plus) or per CPU, these prices differ depending on standard or enterprise edition. I think that the only way you can have a concurrent user license is if you weer "grandfathered" in from an earlier license, but I may be wrong.

I know that the SqlServer grid is fairly complex, but thats another story.

In any event, I think that the vendors are realizing that revenue from database sales alone won't "cut it" anymore and are looking at the licensing now to fill the void, but thats only MHO

hth Received on Wed Oct 23 2002 - 15:23:57 CDT