Re: Oracle on Windows Server Vs Xp-Pro
From: Frank van Bortel <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:23:32 +0100
Message-ID: <cqe6a9$rs6$1_at_news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>
> Now, I'm no lawyer, but that certainly reads as though allowing *anyone
> at all* to connect from a remote PC to an XP Pro Workstation for the
> purposes of accessing an Oracle database is outside the scope of
> licensed activity!! A connection to an Oracle database certainly sounds
> to me like it would count as a "Device using, accessing, displaying or
> running other executable software residing on your Workstation".
>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:23:32 +0100
Message-ID: <cqe6a9$rs6$1_at_news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>
Howard J. Rogers wrote:
[snip!]
[Quoted] > [...] computers or other electronic devices (each a "Device") [...]>
> [...] Except [some MS products], you may not use the Product
> to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other
> executable software residing on the Workstation Computer,
> nor [more ...], unless
> the Device has a separate license for the Product.
> Now, I'm no lawyer, but that certainly reads as though allowing *anyone
> at all* to connect from a remote PC to an XP Pro Workstation for the
> purposes of accessing an Oracle database is outside the scope of
> licensed activity!! A connection to an Oracle database certainly sounds
> to me like it would count as a "Device using, accessing, displaying or
> running other executable software residing on your Workstation".
>
[Quoted] That would not even allow me to use the 6 USB connections, and 4 Firewire, and then connect a (non-USB) keyboard...
[Quoted] Surely that would not hold in any court. MS wish they could, surely, but it sounds to me like "illegally restrictive". But then, I'm not a lawyer, either :)
[Quoted] Merry XMas, and a happy 2005!
Frank van Bortel
Received on Thu Dec 23 2004 - 11:23:32 CET