Re: Licencing terms for students?

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:52:58 +0100
Message-ID: <b73c3$4b040a4a$524b9d64$17265_at_cache6.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>

Paulie wrote:
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> On Nov 14, 6:25 am, Tim X <t..._at_nospam.dev.null> wrote:
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>>> I would like to know under what conditions that I
>>> (a 4th year undergraduate student at Trinity College
>>> Dublin, Ireland) student may (or may not) use Oracle
>>> database products for a degree project?

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>> the first thing I'd do is check that your University doesn't already
>> have an Oracle license you can use. Many of the Universities I've done
>> work at have pretty generous licensing terms with Oracle.

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> I've done that - they do have an Entreprise Server available for
> students, but I wouldn't have the flexibility to be the DBA for
> my own database, so that's out the window for a start.
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>> The second thing I'd do is contact Oracle.

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> I've sent their Irish office an email.
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>>  Possibly offer them copies of your
>> thesis or any papers you get published. Maybe even try sweetening the
>> pot by saying your qiling to acknowledge Oracle in your
>> thesis/publications or possibly agree to a blurb along the lines "This
>> research was made possible through the generous contributions of Oracle
>> blah blah ...

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> Good thinking - I didn't put that sort of blurb in my first email, if
> I do send a second one, I'll be sure to smother them in it!!!
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>> One thing I have learnt when ealing with Oracle is don't accept the
>> first ruling/decision you get if its not satisfactory.

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> Also a good idea - and not one that is intuitively obvious to the
> average Joe on the street - one tends to think of large corporations
> as monoliths - if I do get a first refusal, I might find a "different
> gal"
> to "dance" with me later on...
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>
> You're a bonzer bloke!
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>
> Paul...
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>

>> Tim

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If you find out you need a new license, consider "Standard Edition One" Most cost effective RAC ever.
Oh - and deal in a couple of months (if you can wait that long); Oracle's fiscal year ends on May

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Received on Wed Nov 18 2009 - 08:52:58 CST