Since the topic of Oracle licensing has come up, I'm wondering how
many organizations have site licensing and of what type (concurrent
user, named user, or processor).
We have a network license agreement for a set number of concurrent
licenses and we are coming under pressure to migrate to one of the new
models, either named user or processor. Oracle's position is that the
concurrent model is difficult to monitor for compliance. However, our
Oracle environments are not consolidated in any way; instead we have
database servers dedicated to running Oracle for a single application.
One of our enterprise systems currently being implemented runs an
Oracle instance on the web server, which is a four processor machine,
for the purpose of housing one summary table replicated from the
operational database on another server. This makes the web queries
more efficient, but conceptually will cost us a four processor Oracle
license!
Named user has some problems of its own; an application may be
available to all employees - that doesn't mean they ever actually use
it.
I'm curious how other organizations are dealing with this issue.
TIA -
Kim Thompson
City and County of San Francisco
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