Re: Web access: Enterprise vs. Standard Edition

"Harry Boswell" <hboswel1_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:vrvp4vsct9s733o7csue1sao5bsjbdt723_at_4ax.com...
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:46:10 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Chuck wrote:
> >
> >> Harry Boswell <hboswel1_at_bellsouth.net> wrote in
> >> news:3fin4vkc4n7h3jocmvt8rluakhid7n5qtr_at_4ax.com:
> >>
> >> > WE are being told by our sales rep that you must use Enterprise
> >> > Edition if you are allowing access to your Oracle databases via web
> >> > applications. I can't find anything definitive on Oracle's website.
> >> > Is this true?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Harry Boswell
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes, and you'd better hold onto something when you find out what it's
going
> >> to cost. If even one user access data served by an Oracle database over
the
> >> web (they don't even need to connect directly to the database), you
must
> >> switch to power unit pricing which is not in alignment with any other
> >> database vendor on the planet.
> >
> >What do you mean by yes? The database no means of knowing that a
connection is
> >to the web or a client machine.
> >
> >Am I misunderstanding the OP's question? Anything can be connected to the
web,
> >even MS Word, if you want to put in the effort.
> >
>
> My question is about licensing, not capabilities. We're doing this now
with
> our SE; we're being told that we must use EE for inTERnet, as opposed to
> inTRAnet use.

Ask the rep to justify this, and then whine/threaten to go elsewhere until you get someone who knows what they are talking about. You only licence EE if you need its capabilities, SE is perfectly capable of serving web users.

As far as the distinction between processor licensing and named user licensing goes - it is likely that you will need to go the per processor route as you probably can't identify how many different end users will be accessing the database. AFAIK this applies to alternative RDBMS as well.

Chuck's comments about power unit pricing are out of date, since Oracle scra pped that model in response to customer pressure.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK