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Re: Standby database & licensing

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 11:44:18 -0700
Message-ID: <1115059216.19662@yasure>


Syltrem wrote:

> From what Oracle told us, it would cost about 100,000$ to setup a standby
> database (Enterprise Edition) on a 4 CPU box.
> Considering this would be at a remote site, and the machine would only ever
> be used in case of disaster recovery (that is, no connected users ever
> unless the primary datacenter is blacked out), we find it's not cheap.

Find a different Oracle rep. Standby databases are free unless they are made active for, IIRC, 9 days. Here's the proof:

http://oraclestore.oracle.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=11365&media=os_local_license_agreement

and I quote:
"System: shall be defined as each distinct production database. Test, development, failover and standby databases are not required to be licensed as systems; however, you may run the program on these databases."

It is Q4 and unless there is something you haven't said, or I am misunderstanding something someone is being rather unethical and you should say something to his management.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Mon May 02 2005 - 13:44:18 CDT

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