Re: Important - Oracle Pricing on Standby/DR/Failover databases

[tjambu_fatcity]

Hi Jared

I have a reply from someone who does not want to be identified.
This is his case. 

His company tried reasoning and discussing it with Oracle
and even tried a compromised (which I would not be happy with)

He company put forward to Oracle to pay for the full licence
on the production server AND the minimum for the standby.
In the case the standby was a single CPU and so the minimum
licence is a 5 User Licence.  This was to account for any DBA
connection to check the integrity of the standby database.
Even this was not acceptable to Oracle. How greedy can you be?
Can you say "Gordon Gekko"?

BTW   The following information applies to all
You need to know the difference between NAMED USER and
NAMED USER PLUS.  (extract from SELECT*Star)

Gone also is the “Named User” license. In its place is

“Named User Plus. Companies wanting to purchase additional

user licenses for the same machine will need to convert

their Named User licenses to Named User Plus licenses

if they do not have a “Price Hold” on the license.

The minimum number of licenses must be the greater of

either the actual number of users or the

Minimum Named User Plus (25 per CPU) for the server.

Minimum Named User (Enterprise Edition) per CPU

used to be 10 but now the minimum Named User Plus

per CPU is 25. In some instances, customers are

forced to buy more licenses than is required

when looking for additional licenses.

The key difference between Named User and

Named User Plus is that Named User does not allow

for batch processing whereas Named User Plus does.

ta
tony


At 08:57 PM 15/01/2003 -0800, Jared Still wrote:

Thanks Tony.

Looks like Larry E is trying to boost revenues in a down
economy by any means necessary.

You're right, this doesn't seem right.

Jared

On Wednesday 15 January 2003 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All
>
> For those sites with either a standby, DR or failover database,
> the following information is very important to you.  You could be in
> breach of Oracle's Licensing agreement and could cost you $100,000s
> if not millions $$
>
> (Read the summary at the end if you want to skip the details)
>
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