RE: Important - Oracle Pricing on Standby/DR/Failover databases

Ethan

This 10 day grace only applies to Clusters/Failovers not Standbys. So unless your DR is in a Global Cluster you can't apply the 10 days grace.

As for a Hot standby DR site where the server is larger than the Primary server, I would think it reasonable to pay for the size of the Primary. But knowing Oracle, they might want you to pay for the 12 CPU model.

ta
tony

At 08:39 AM 16/01/2003 -0800, Post, Ethan wrote:

>This is interesting...
>
>So in the event of a true DR where a DR center has servers co-located and
>are available for hundreds of potential customers do we need to pay for the
>license on the box we use at the DR center if it is used more than 10 days a
>year? Does one pay after they have gone over the 10 day limit? What if the
>DR center gives you a box much larger than the one you are currently
>licensed for, say you go from a 4 CPU's to 12?
>
>Is is possible for hundreds of customers to be paying for Oracle licenses on
>just a few boxes at the DR center, with the assumption that they might be
>utilized?
>
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>Tony,
>
>Good to see your fingerprints here!
>
>I had always gone on the theory that I would need at least two of the
>licenses, one for production and one for the standby server. I hadn't
>thought about one for the DR site, on the theory, that since DR was up
>and running ONLY when production was not, it was the same "software". I
>had had that information from my Oracle sales reps as well.
>
>Now it seems I'll have to go back to my IT operations people and have
>them verify that we are in compliance with the licensing. Or that they
>are ready to fight it. We do have an overall company license (Sony is a
>fairly large user) so I don't know how that affects our licensing as
>well.
>
>I hadn't realized that as an Oracle DBA I also had to be a lawyer!
>
>Rachel
>
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