"Susan Lam" <susana73_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I talked to the Oracle sales he says Oracle licenses per instance per
> user. This means, if I have 4 instances on a server and userA need to
> access 3 of them, userA counted as 3 licenses. Speed and number of
> cpu will also take into consideration. Can somebody tell me if this
> true?
Not as I understand it. I believe that you can license *either* per user
*or* per processor.
Processor speed should no longer come into it. I believe that if you are
going per user then you have to buy a minimum number of user licences. As
Richard says you get better deals at quarter and (especially) Year End/ The
year starts (or used to) in April.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 07:50:45 CDT
