Re: Licensing Question
From: Noons <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:59:28 +1100
Message-ID: <goo7fa$rkb$2_at_reader.motzarella.org>
Dereck L. Dietz wrote,on my timestamp of 5/03/2009 8:09 AM:
> I just want to know if this is something I can bring up during a budget
> meeting later this week.
>
> If we have two servers. One will be production and the other strictly
> development/testing but only one license for Enterprise Edition is it
> possible to have Enterprise Edition on the development server too or does
> that violate Oracle licensing?
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:59:28 +1100
Message-ID: <goo7fa$rkb$2_at_reader.motzarella.org>
Dereck L. Dietz wrote,on my timestamp of 5/03/2009 8:09 AM:
> I just want to know if this is something I can bring up during a budget
> meeting later this week.
>
> If we have two servers. One will be production and the other strictly
> development/testing but only one license for Enterprise Edition is it
> possible to have Enterprise Edition on the development server too or does
> that violate Oracle licensing?
It violates the licensing. I just updated all our licenses precisely because of
that. We went with named user licenses for development, but even those have to
be purchased in minimum lots per cpu core in use!
Fortunately I was able to pick SE for some of the dbs, so that took a bit of the
sting out of the whole thing.
DAMHKIT, the boss is still reeling from the bill...
Received on Thu Mar 05 2009 - 03:59:28 CST