Brian Peasland 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.
>
>
> When you use Named User licensing, you have to physically name every
> human body that makes that Oracle connection. This is not the same as
> the username that connects to the database. Since your web server
> initiates the process, it is the human bodies that connect to your web
> server that you have to name. If you cannot name all of these humans,
> for instance the web server is open to the general public, then you need
> to license Oracle with the per-processor licensing model. If you can
> physically name your users, then 5 is the minimum you can buy.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
Leading to the possibility that your web sites asks for a name.
Then uses that to create a user and password, then gives that user
a role with object and system privs, and afterward drops the user.
Of course a web site that could only handle five transactions at a
time probably belongs in MySQL rather than Oracle.
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Daniel Morgan
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Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 01:29:01 CST
