Re: NT Licenses
Date: 1996/04/26
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In article <317FE3C2.3653_at_powergrid.electriciti.com> Paul Singer <singerap_at_powergrid.electriciti.com> writes:
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>From: Paul Singer <singerap_at_powergrid.electriciti.com>
>Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
>Subject: Re: NT Licenses
>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:42:42 -0700
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>To: Matthew Read <mread_at_dircon.co.uk>
>Matthew Read wrote:
>> ...
>> Given that users will not be using NT and that a user doesn't
>> actually need to log in to the server in order to access the
>> database it occurred to me that you only need to purchase NT
>> licenses for server admin.
I believe the question is how many Microsoft Licenses for the NT server
does he need to purchase. In the Netware world you can buy a small Novell
Netware liscense, say a 5 user Netware liscense, and have many more than that
use the Oracle database as long as you have paid for the proper amount of
Oracle licenses to do so. For example, I could have 1 Novell server
(server A) that I use for file and print services. I could have a 250 user
Novell liscense on server A. I can have server B that is a 5 user liscense
and I could have Oracle installed on it. As long as I paid for 200 Oracle
lisences I could have 250 people log on to server A and 200 of those logon to
Oracle. On the Novell side this is in the Oracle manuals for Novell.
I have not looked in the NT manuals, but I would suspect that a similar situation would prevail for NT.
I know this whole thing can seem confusing.
Jim Kennedy
>Nice try but I believe that Oracle would disagree.
>
>> Alternatively maybe you need per seat licenses for each
>> potential Oracle user?
>This would be a "Named user" license. Oracle doesn't like to sell
>those any more.
>> Response from someone that has actually done this would be
>> useful.
>> Matt.
>You need licenses for connections to the databse. Each simultanious
>connection will need a license. ie. If 30 people use the database
>at the same time you will need to purchase 30 simultanious licenses.
>Your Oracle rep will be able to provice more specific details.
Received on Fri Apr 26 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST