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Re: Standby database & licensing

From: Syltrem <syltremzulu_at_videotron.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 14:54:52 -0400
Message-ID: <CFude.1514$g4.29270@tor-nn1.netcom.ca>


"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> a écrit dans le message de news:1115059216.19662_at_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)

Glad to hear that, Daniel.
Many thanks for the URL and your answer.

-- 
Syltrem

OpenVMS 7.3-1 + Oracle 8.1.7.4
http://pages.infinit.net/syltrem (OpenVMS related web site, en français)
---zulu is not in my email address---
Received on Mon May 02 2005 - 13:54:52 CDT

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