Re: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

Jay,

Keep in mind that these are usually runtime licenses.

The license agreement probably stipulates that you can do no development on databases with a runtime license.

This week I have a consultant in installing an app that runs on Oracle with a 3rd party license. Our finance dept bought the app without talking to us first, and got the workgroup version of the app.

Oracle's runtime license with this vendor stipulates that they are not allowed to give their customers the sys password.

You can only get around this temporarily by creating a new password file, but you have to put it back to run the app.

The only way to circumvent it is to pay the vendor $3k for a rep to come out and install the 'enterprise' version.

ie. on a database I created.

So, make sure you know what their licensing restrictions are.

Jared

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 06:14, Jay Hostetter wrote:
> We are purchasing a software package from a vendor. The vendor states that the package includes sufficient Oracle licenses. Since I'm supposed to keep on top of our licensing costs, I'm trying to make sure that there are no surprises down the road - such as additional Oracle support fees or Oracle claiming that we don't have this new box licensed, etc. How can the vendor prove that they are providing a license? When I asked them for some type of proof, they forward the OLSA to me, which is basically generic - it doesn't tell me if the license is SE, EE, SE One, perpertual, term, CPU, Named User, etc. Any thoughts or do I just take their word for it?
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> Thanks,
> Jay
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