Re: Automatic Shared Memory Management needs Diagnostics Pack license?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:18:06 -0700
Message-ID: <1160158684.241403@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

hpuxrac wrote:

> DA Morgan wrote:

>> Mark Townsend wrote:
>>
>>> Oracle continuously evaluates it's products, how customers use them
>> I fully appreciate all that you wrote, though like HPUXRAC, I disagree
>> with some of those decisions. But one problem with the above sentence is
>> that evaluating how we use a product posits that we are not going to
>> tell Oracle we are violating a license.
>>
>> I think refusing a revenue stream with Standard Edition
>> counter-productive. If we want to give you money ... the least you can
>> do is take it.
>>
>> And you might be surprised at the large number of DBAs, in shops using
>> SE, that would say "Thank you" for access for being able to legally use
>> some of those built-ins.

> 
> Mark noted that people who have installed standard edition are not able
> to use those features at all.  I don't know standard edition, have
> never worked with it.

Not able as in it is a license violation. That is not the same as 'not able' and in the data dictionary views don't exist.

This is analogous to the partitioning option. Oracle installs it. Oracle uses it. You just 'can't' if you don't buy the license.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
University of Washington
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group

Received on Fri Oct 06 2006 - 13:18:06 CDT