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You don't need to name your users, however if your named user limit is
e.g. 100,
you'll never be legally allowed more that 100 separate usernames (where
a user can create a session i.e. logon under a different user name). You
can have generic names if you want. E.g. Accounts_clerk,
Accounts_manager, Personell_Clerk etc. Maybe give the managers their
own username though.
N.B. all licence restrictions are done on an honour basis - you could startup your database ( if you wanted to break the law) with it accepting unlimited users.
Think your a bit off with your power limit calcs. Could be aroung 50$ per power unit IF YOU WANT UNLIMITED USERS. But if you want a NAMED USERS LIMIT then the only thing you have to worry about is the licence price floor. This is e.g. 150$ / 50 Mhz. So say you only wanted 3 users but you have 4 * 600 MHz CPUs. The cost per named user would be e.g. 3 * 100$ = 300$ but you'll still have to pay (4*600Mhz)/50Mhz) * 150$ i.e. 7200$ so this is how Oracle still makes some money from you.
So the name of the game (if you got complete control of the rule-book!) is :--
P.S. Tell all your application developer friends / companies to start creating generic usernames, not specific ones.
Hope this clarifies,
David P.
JK wrote:
>
> I'd really appreciate it if someone can clarify some of Oracle's licensing
> to me.
>
> Does named user license mean that I have to specify the actual name of the
> person accessing the database to Oracle? While purchasing? People working
> at our company change very frequently and I'm not sure I want to get into
> this type of agreement if that's the case.
>
> Also, most of the connections to the database at my company are from
> software that are automated (getting data from one place, inserting it into
> database, moving it, querying to create reports etc.). How do I figure out
> licenses for these? And please don't say "power unit". We'll have to
> migrate to a different database from Oracle If that's the only way! Can't
> afford it. I can buy a Sun Enterprise 4500 with 6 400 MHz CPUs for a little
> over $100K but I'll have to pay Oracle $360K for the database! Not counting
> any options!
>
> Thanks much
> JK
Received on Wed Mar 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CST
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