Re: Q. on Oracle licensing fees practice for pure development environments?

adamvt_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> We are a small software development company and we develop applications
> for our client and the underlying database of our products is Oracle.
> Our use of Oracle is only for development and we have no in house use
> for it, our client purchase our applications and buy the Oracle
> licenses themselves. I heard from a friend that since our environment
> is purely developmental we only need to pay a nominal annual usage fee
> to Oracle and we don't have to buy the full license.
> I was wondering how much this is true?
> Thanks in advance for any info.
> Adam Tadj.
>
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> Before you buy.

        If it wasn't true you wouldn't be able to either download Oracle at no charge or have them ship you Oracle on CD for an amount that barely covers shipping and handling.

-- 
Jerry Gitomer 
Once I learned how to spell DBA, I became one