Re: purchase options for 9i Standard Edition

Hong,

My undestanding is that:

2. You can have either Named User or per Prossesor license. If you license users then does not matter what machine you are running. If you license per Prosessor then it does not matter how many users are connecting.

3. If your current server have 2 CPUs then you have to purchase a license for 2 CPUs if you choose per Prossesor license. If you add more prossesors the Oracle instance will keep working but you have to upgrade your license with the amount of prosesors you are adding.

Of course, the best way of dealing with licenses is to call your Oracle Sales rep and clarify those questions.

Check the latest Oracle DBA forums on:
http://www.dbaclick.com/cgi-bin/ib3/ikonboard.cgi

for solutions to your problems.

Hope that helps,

Trifon Anguelov
Senior Oracle DBA

http://www.dbaclick.com

"Hong Hsu" <honghsu_at_bellatlantic.net> wrote in message news:3CAF361C.F0A2F57B_at_bellatlantic.net...
>
> I saw several purchase options for 9i Standard Edition, such as
> 4-year Named User $108, Concurrent Users, and 4-year Processor $9k.
> My questions are:
> 1. By using Named User choice, can same user login from different
> machines? How pricing of Concurrent User differ from Named User?
> 2. Does Processor choice independent from choosing Named Users, such as
> 2-Processor with 25 Named Users OR A Processor with 40 Named Users?
> 3. Right now our server has dual Intel processors. Does that mean I
> have to purchase two Processor Licensing. If later the server is added
> another two Intel processors, then the two Processor Licensing will stop
> working.
>
>
> Your help will be appreciated,
> -Hong
>
>
Received on Sat Apr 06 2002 - 19:10:44 CST