Re: Distributed Option

In Oracle7 you had to explicitly select "Distributed Option" when installing the software.
I believe it was also licensed as an option -- ie you had to pay additional for it.
Hemant

At 12:38 PM 27-12-02 -0800, you wrote:
>I've got a client that needs "distributed
>option" installed on several databases,
>versions 7.3.4, 8.0.5, and 8.1.7...
>
>Problem may be I'm not sure we'll have all
>the CD's as vendors of applications did
>most of the installs and we think we'll
>find that they took the CD's with them.
>After all, if it's up and running and
>vendor supported(or was), why would the
>client need the CD?
>
>Anyhow, is it just a "free" option that will
>need to be selected with the Oracle installer,
>or is it an "add on" that one is supposed to
>contact Oracle on? Or perhaps it just involves
>running one of those all but undocumented
>packages.
>
>There are many ways to work around this if
>we have to, but would like to know what all
>is involved if we can get the distributed
>option installed on all of their databases.
>
>It's on my Personal Oracle, but seems to
>be part of a general set of things that
>get installed.
>
>
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