RE: How do you evidence Oracle Licences purchased ?

We have someone within Change Management who owns an Excel spreadsheet. A lot of people have read access to that spreadsheet.

We (DBA's) are not allowed to install Oracle on a server until the = server name appear on that spreadsheet.

The owner of the spreadsheet has to have seen evidence from either = Purchasing or our Oracle account manager that licenses have been = purchased before he updates the spreadsheet

This seems to work very well, even within a large orgainisation with = multiple methods of acquiring both the software and the licenses

John

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Hemant K Chitale
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:30 PM
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Subject: How do you evidence Oracle Licences purchased ?

Till a few years ago, Oracle used to provide us a Licence Order Form=20 detailing the licences purchased.

Apparently, for the past few years, the only evidence of the Licences=20 purchased has been in the
actual Invoice -- and this invoice, in my organisation, goes direct to = the=20
Finance Dept, even
if seperate groups/OUs have purchased licences.

Although the purchaser does send me information on the CSI which he=20 receives from Oracle Support,
and I enrol myself as the MetaLink administrator for that CSI, this, in = my=20
opinion wouldn't be
adequate evidence of the products and Licence quantities [Users or=20 Processors] purchased.
[Printing the "List Licences" listing from MetaLink doesn't help as=20
quantities aren't presented -- in
fact a recent purchase of EE + RAC + Partitioning just showed up as=20 seperate "Oracle Enterprise Edition"
entries, without the actual Option and the Processor counts].

So my question is, if seperate groups within your organisation purchase=20 Oracle Licences, how do
you get evidence of the Products and Licence Quantities and actual file=20 *paper evidence* of it ?

Hemant K Chitale
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~hkchital

              =20

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