Re: Could Mark Townsend please comment on this question re: Standard Edition

hpuxrac wrote:
> Niall Litchfield wrote:
>
> > >
> > > 4) Are there any potential legal implications for both oracle and
> > > oracle customers because oracle is shipping a product that has features
> > > enabled and ready to use that one cannot license?
> >
> > Great question, especially for AWR that is adding additional useless
> > processing overhead (admittedly not much) to SE databases, that is there
> > is processing going on/storage being used and so on, that SE customers
> > cannot use. it would be interesting actually to see how AWR in
> > particular compares with various legislations definitions of computer
> > misuse.
> >
>
> It would be nice to get this area straightened out without involving
> the suits.

All your other points are good, but _this_ is just silly. The technical issues are the least of it, the licensing issues are almost entirely suit-ish.

jg

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