Re: Standby database & licensing

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 18:02:08 -0700
Message-ID: <1115081882.371472@yasure>

hpuxrac wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:
>

>>Syltrem wrote:
>>
>>
>>>From what Oracle told us, it would cost about 100,000$ to setup a

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> standby
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>>>database (Enterprise Edition) on a 4 CPU box.
>>>Considering this would be at a remote site, and the machine would

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> only ever
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>>>be used in case of disaster recovery (that is, no connected users

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> ever
>

>>>unless the primary datacenter is blacked out), we find it's not

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> cheap.
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>>Find a different Oracle rep. Standby databases are free unless they

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> are
>

>>made active for, IIRC, 9 days. Here's the proof:
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>>

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> 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,

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>

>>development, failover and standby databases are not required to be
>>licensed as systems; however, you may run the program on these

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> databases."
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>>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.

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>
> 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?

Active-Standby DataGuard ... the standby, if it is a true standby, is free. My Oracle sales rep just confirmed that 5 minutes ago.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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