Dennis,
I remember something from the past about just such a "Deal" . You
notified Oracle about the CPU's you had installed and then Oracle would
use a "monitoring tool" to see how many CPU's you were using and they
would charge you for the actual number of CPU's that you activated and
for the time frame they were acticated. That way you could build a box
that would run on 1 CPU for normal load and then ramp up for the heavy
end of year processing. You would only be chagred for the extra CPU's
when you needed them.
I don't know if this policy is still in effect or not.
ROR mª¿ªm
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Dennis,
This doesn't sound right. Oracle will not try to extort, er, charge
money
for CPU's that aren't installed. Merely having the slots doesn't
count.
Having CPU's installed but switched off but installed is not a new
concept,
having been around in the mainframe world for some time. I wouldn't
think Oracle would try to make you pay for CPU's you can't use.
Best call your Oracle rep for a definitive answer.
Jared
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Subject: RE: Oracle CPU Licensing
An analyst recently made a statement that under CPU licensing "Oracle
is
charging for unused CPU slots". I found this very surprising. I can see
two
possible interpretations:
1. If the system is capable of holding 8 CPUs, but I only have 4 CPUs
installed, Oracle would charge me for 8 CPUs. I find this unacceptable.
For
one thing, in some machines, a slot can contain either a CPU or
memory.
2. Some vendors (HP I believe) have offered an upgrade on demand
configuration, where the system is delivered with more CPUs than the
customer purchased. If the customer wants additional processing power,
the
vendor can switch on the additional CPUs, saving a visit by a customer
engineer. Another possibility would be if I had a way to limit the
number
of
CPUs that could execute Oracle. This doesn't sound so bad, since it
might
be
easy to increase the number of CPUs without paying additional fees to
Oracle.
Has anyone heard of this type of license
interpretation
by Oracle?
Our license renewal is coming up soon and we would prefer to not be
blindsided.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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