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Re: Licensing one single user?

From: KevJohnP <nospam_at_nowhere.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:53:52 +1200
Message-ID: <5e38c.14516$rw6.272968@news.xtra.co.nz>


Oracle have written a number of documents that explain their licensing and from reading them my summary would be always take the worse case and that is how their license terms operate.

Any and every user of your application that directly or indirectly uses the database is considered a user as far as Oracle are concerned. The definition of Oracle users in the database is not a factor.

The licensing documents are available from oraclestore.oracle.com

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> One of my applications is a Java applet which sends and
> receives all of its functionality from the originating
> web server.
>
> The web server in turn uses OCI programs to communicate
> with our only Oracle server. Every time the Oracle server
> receives a query, it comes from the same, the one and only
> Oracle user, called 'database'.
>
> Is the above approach a valid use of my license?
> The way I see it is I have the minimum (5 named users)
> licenses and hence I have FOUR more than necessary.
>
> -Ramon F. Herrera
Received on Tue Mar 23 2004 - 16:53:52 CST

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