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Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>Ryan wrote:
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>>you have to pay license fees on RMAN? I thought you only pay for
>>'production' systems. RMAN counts?
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>It's not RMAN you have to pay for. It's the fact that an RMAN catalog
>database means that somewhere there's another installation of Oracle, and
>you can't install Oracle without paying for it.
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>But I'm not a salesman, and I have no idea how much that will cost, or what
>sort of license you need, or whether you can't arm-twist your friendly
>Oracle sales representative into doing a very attractive deal.
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>Cost shouldn't be the decider, however, in any case. I only mentioned it as
>just another factor to be taken into consideration. Think functionality. If
>you have modest backup needs, and no legal keep-for-a-decade peculiarities
>to contend with, there's probably no need for a catalog.
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>Regards
>HJR
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