Re: Oracle Licensing

From: Rachel Carmichael <carmichr_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:29:50 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002C4E76.20010306094548@fatcity.com>

Ingres used to do that for expiration date... you had to enter an authorization string when you installed the database. It would check and refuse to come up if the software expired.

Except they

never warned you you were close to expiration
usually shut you down around 10AM EST so people who had logged in earlier could work
were a pita about sending a new string

you had to shut down production in order to apply the new string.

NOT happy making for the DBA (me)

Rachel

>From: Dennis Taylor <ismgr_at_pctc.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Re: Oracle Licensing
>Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 07:40:43 -0800
>
>At 03:35 AM 3/6/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >my .02 is the whole power unit thing is a good concept but the $$ per
> >unit is way outta whack. the only reason i say that is its been hard
> >for oracle to denote when people were using more than the licenses they
> >bought were being used. I had always setup the databases with the
> >v$license parms setup in the database. But sometimes damagement
> >"required" me to "uplift" the limits. We'll leave it at that.
> >
>
>I've always been very surprised that Oracle didn't put some kind of
>licensing enforcement in their software. They're the perfect situation for
>it -- High ticket, relatively low volume. They could afford to "brand" the
>software before sending it to the customer. I bet they'd more than make up
>enough revenue to be able to drop their prices to something non-lunatic.
>
>
>Dennis Taylor
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