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RE: Oracle Licensing - Concurrent users

From: Steve McClure <smcclure_at_usscript.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:23:19 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00413BD2.20020219172319@fatcity.com>


Our site just went through this, and Oracle determined that we needed to use CPU licenses. We actually replaced our 4 cpu DG Aviion with a new Sunfire 3800 with two sparc3 processors. The money saved in Oracle licensing paid for the new equipment. They simply came in and told us that the licensing agreement we had worked out less than a year ago was "out the window", and would not cover our configuration. My personal take on it is that Oracle has said "Enough with being price competitive with SQL Server. We have a superior product, and should cost substantially more".

One thing we did learn was that Oracle will not "credit" any of your previous license payments. So we were able to retain them. We have 800 processor units that can be used to run a database or a forms/reports server. I don't know how or if the concurrent user licenses would be retained.

Steve McClure

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WILLIAMS
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Rachel - By Web license, do you mean the unlimited-user CPU-based licensing? Thanks.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

you need to be careful if you are also using databases whose contents appear on the web, as Oracle will want you to use a web license (extremely expensive) even if the data is not directly accessed but appears on the web in static pages generated from the Oracle database.


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