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

hpuxrac wrote:
> 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.

Audits are actually taking place, aren't they? And Oracle is going to loose customers because of that.

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA