Re: Do I need an Oracle Developer License when I am the end user?

>Hi,
>
>My company is buying a custom software from a
>local software developer.
>
>The software is being developed by this third
>party using Oracle Developer 5.0 (Forms and
>Reports).
>
>My company IS NOT and WILL NOT develop anything.
>So, assuming that all we will do is to run our
>applications as end users, and that WE HAVE the
>Oracle server licenses. Do we need to buy the
>Developer licenses? If not, Has the third party
>to provide us the necessary Forms and Reports
>runtimes along with the custom applications?
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>René Pezo
>

I can't speak for Oracle, but in the past the developer license included the ability to distribute with no additional fees the run-time components of Oracle tools to as many places/sites/instances as desired. The only stipulatation was that the license had to be for the same platform as the client (You can't have a NT license and deploy to Sun workstations clients, not that you could do that anyway...)

This is assuming you are not using other separately licensed products like Oracle Applications or Headstart. I don't know about them.

Dah Hekimian-Williams Received on Fri May 14 1999 - 04:53:18 CEST