RE: Number of processors and standard edition

Its worse than that - he's dead Jim. Ooops sorry wrong reference.

The obnoxiously worded licence agreement states that std edition can only be licensed on a machine 'capable' of a maximum of 4 processors. If you have 2 processors in a chassis that can take 8, the agreement says that you need EE. There is also a RAM limit IIRC 4gb.

You may guess that I object to this stance. My reasons are

1. You should licence according to functional need not horsepower of box. N archive log destinations is not a function of Y processors.
2. There is no difference between machines with 2 processors in a 2 processor chassis and 2 processors in an 8 processor chassis.
3. Its all too expensive anyway. EE is the best marketing reason on the planet to adopt MSSQL.
4. I don't believe that any reasonable court will uphold the "ah but you *could* put 32 processors in there at some point I'll charge you 300% more for what you actually have" argument.
5. reasonable courts may not actually exist.

Niall

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ml-errors_at_fatcity.com [mailto:ml-errors_at_fatcity.com] On
> Behalf Of Tim Gorman
> Sent: 29 July 2003 19:34
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Number of processors and standard edition
>
>
> I'm pretty sure that SE will run on any size server, but
> you'll be charged for EE when that server has more than 4 CPUs... :-)
>
> You'll see info for this at "http://oraclestore.oracle.com"
> when you try to price an SE license on a per-processor basis.
> Click on the explanation of "User Minimums" for the verbiage...
>
>
>
> on 7/29/03 10:04 AM, Farnsworth, Dave at
> DFarnsworth_at_Ashleyfurniture.com
> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to find any info on if there is a maximum number pf
> > processors that a server can have and have Oracle standard
> edition run
> > on it. Just looking to see if there is a cutoff point in
> the number
> > of processors where I would be forced to go to Enterprise
> Edition of
> > Oracle 8i.. I'm looking through the concepts docs but have not yet
> > found this info.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
>
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