Could Mark Townsend please comment on this question re: Standard Edition

I just did an install of Oracle Standard Edition 10.2 on a linux centos 4.3 machine and created a database.

I did acknowledge thru OEM that I was aware of the license requirements for the oracle packs ( configuration/diagnostic/tuning ).

The database control comes up and yes indeed you can use the Performance tab, ADDM, etc on the standard edition database.

I am confused and referenced the documentation that Mark pointed out in an earlier posting

http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b14199/toc.htm

Now according to that document there is no way "EVER" that one can license the packs for a standard edition database. Yet oracle installs the packs and they function in the database control when you select standard edition.

Something is wrong here at least to me. Either you should be able to license the packs for standard edition OR if you are not ever able to do that, the oracle software install should have those disabled these from the beginning with no way to ever turn on the functionality in a standard edition database.

Under the current situation, it appears to me as if oracle is not acting in good faith for people that are installing standard edition.

Is there some kind of implicit hinting by oracle that you can't actually license them but we want you to go ahead and use them in standard edition.

If one were a little paranoid ( aren't all good dba's a little paranoid ? ) then one might wonder if oracle might at some point audit certain customers and ask them to pay for an upgrade to enterprise edition as well as the cost of those packs if they detect that they have been used.

Something just doesn't seem right about this situation. Received on Wed Oct 11 2006 - 12:38:47 CDT