Re: Oracle Licensing Paper

"Paul Drake" <drak0nian_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1ac7c7b3.0402281952.1ed132f6_at_posting.google.com... > "DJ" <nospamplease_at_goaway.com> wrote in message news:<MZ80c.1117$XB.365_at_newsfe1-gui.server.ntli.net>...
> > "Spring04-345u" <spring04-345U_at_dhf.eda> wrote in message
> > news:10423kh4evlhh6a_at_news.supernews.com...
> > > The coms should be changed to orgs. Sorry!
> > >
> >
> > <snip sh*t>
> >
> > read the post about spam - you have done youself out of some business
here

>
> DJ,
>
> I must vehemently disagree.
> The link regarding the article was of high quality.
> Oracle licensing is entirely relevant to the Database Administrator.
> Have you read the guidelines in the OCP?
>
> It is of the utmost importance for an Oracle DBA to know how to work
> efectively with Oracle Support, and to know what level of support they
> are entitled to.
>
> It is important for the Oracle DBA to understand what features
> (options) their license(s) entitle them to use, for how many users or
> for how many CPUs. Features that are enterprise edition-specific
> change from release to release (e.g. analytic functions, stored
> outlines, connection manager).
>
> Imagine being the DBA that wrongly installed Enterprise Edition with
> the partitioning and OLAP options on a 4-way server, when only
> Standard Edition was licensed.
>
> Even after that person is terminated, the employer is still on the
> hook for a large amount of fees (larger than the DBA's annual salary,
> most likely).
>
> I can forsee the day when someone will not be able to click thru a
> EULA without having their attorney review it, and submit their legal
> info into the EULA.
>
> or maybe I've just been reading Groklaw too much.
>
> Pd

true licensing is a concern, but this was just purely promoting a different product - that is spam Received on Sun Feb 29 2004 - 06:43:06 CST