Re: Oracle 8i Licensing Question

harbinger666_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> I have a quick question regarding Oracle 8i licensing. We have two IBM
> RS/6000's in a HA cluster. The Oracle 8 binaries are installed once
> only on shared external SSA disks. The standby node takes both the
> hostname and IP address of the live, and the SSA disks are exclusively
> used by either node so the Oracle 8i server is only accessible from one
> machine.
>
> I've been told we need two licenses for this setup. Is this correct?
>
> TIA
>
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Doubt it, but it probably depends on who you're talking to. Best approach would be to turn it down, based on the licencing schema Oracle uses: MHz * cpu * $$$$; you will never use both machines at the same time, so only 1 * (MHz * cpu * $$$$) applies, not two! Oracle doesn't run on the other machine, until it takes over, right?

(Hot standby is a different story, I managed to get the second licence for peanuts)
hth, grtz, Frank Received on Wed Jul 26 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT