An open letter to Larry Ellison on licensing AWR and ASH

Listers,

   With a great deal of help from several colleagues at The Pythian Group, I have prepared an open letter to Larry Ellison, suggesting that with the upcoming release of Oracle 11 he should change the licensing terms surrounding access to the tables and views underlying AWR and ASH.

   These license terms have been a recurring subject of discussion on this list, so I hope that this open letter will find a large and interested audience here.

   The purpose of the letter is not to complain, but rather to champion AWR and to suggest that its adoption might be both faster and broader with just a slight relaxation in the licensing terms. I, for one, would like to see everybody using it.

   Anyway, for those who are interested, the letter can be found here:

http://www.pythian.com/blogs/526/an-open-letter-to-larry-ellison-on-awr-and-ash-licensing

   Please come by, read it over, and if you wish add your voice to the petition. The planned release date for Oracle 11 is fast approaching; it is our goal to present this letter in time to influence the licensing terms for this new release and with enough community support to make a truly compelling case.

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Cheers,
-- Mark Brinsmead

   Senior DBA,
   The Pythian Group
   http://www.pythian.com/blogs

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