Mark Bole wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>
>> Andreas Sheriff wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My eyes are starting to turn inside out.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a good grasp on Oracle licensing?
>>>
>>> We currently have Oracle Enterprise 8.1.5 installed.
>>> Is 8.1.7 considered an update or another product altogether?
>>
>>
>>
>> 8.1.7 is considered unsupported and obsolete.
>>
>> The only reason to move to 8.1.7 from 8.1.5 would be if you
>> made really bad purchasing decision from a third-party vendor
>> in which case you would need to know what the original license
>> said.
>
>
> Another reason would be to migrate to 9i, which is only supported coming
> from 8.1.7.4, not 8.1.5.
>
> AFAIK, Oracle RDBMS licensing covers all versions. It's the CPU or
> named users you are licensing (capacity), not the version. But you need
> paid support to download patches.
>
> -Mark Bole
Are you sure? 10gR1 contains upgrade scripts going back to 8.0.5. as
follows:
0800080.sql
0801050.sql
0801060.sql
0801070.sql
0900010.sql
0902000.sql
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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Thu Jun 23 2005 - 18:44:04 CDT
