Re: Oracle database licensing

This is how my Oracle Sales Rep explained this to me:

• Oracle must be licensed for every computer and CPU (one or more per computer) on which it runs. I don't know much about multi-processor architectures but apparently there is a way for specific CPU(s) to be dedicated to certain OS tasks (Oracle or otherwise). For example if you had a large Sun machine with 8 processors, 1 of which were dedicated to an email server, 2 of which dedicated to a web server and 5 available for Oracle and miscellanous tasks, you would be required to license Oracle for this computer with the 5 processor configuration.
• There is no functional difference between Oracle on a single or multi-CPU box.
• I can't see why Oracle would not work if you added more CPUs to a single-CPU machine, but if the additional CPUs were not dedicated to non-Oracle tasks (i.e. they play a role in processing the Oracle instance on that machine), you would be obligated to upgrade your license (and incurr increased cost) to the new CPU configurartion. Hope this helps.

Mark Lau wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to Oracle database and am quite confused after visiting the
> licensing page of the Oracle web site. Specifically, I am wondering if I
> must run the multiple CPU version (if it is different from the single CPU
> one) of Oracle DB on a multiple CPU machine? Or can I save myself some money
> by running the single CPU version? Also, if I start with the single CPU
> version DB on a single CPU machine, would this version still run if I add
> more CPU's to the machine? Or may be there is really no difference between
> the single CPU version and multi-CPU version so Larry would come after me
> for money once I added more CPU's?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> mark.
Received on Wed Nov 29 2000 - 06:08:06 CET