Re: Standby database & licensing

DA Morgan wrote:
> 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.

A system on a failover cluster is apparently free, pending licensing changes from oracle ... unless activated for a long period of time.

A standby database is different. How many customers have you told that standby databases are free? Received on Mon May 02 2005 - 15:23:01 CDT