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Re: Licensing one single user?

From: Brian Peasland <dba_at_remove_spam.peasland.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:42:57 GMT
Message-ID: <4060BD71.F924E8D3@remove_spam.peasland.com>


> One of my applications is a Java applet which sends and
> receives all of its functionality from the originating
> web server.
>
> The web server in turn uses OCI programs to communicate
> with our only Oracle server. Every time the Oracle server
> receives a query, it comes from the same, the one and only
> Oracle user, called 'database'.
>
> Is the above approach a valid use of my license?
> The way I see it is I have the minimum (5 named users)
> licenses and hence I have FOUR more than necessary.

When you use Named User licensing, you have to physically name every human body that makes that Oracle connection. This is not the same as the username that connects to the database. Since your web server initiates the process, it is the human bodies that connect to your web server that you have to name. If you cannot name all of these humans, for instance the web server is open to the general public, then you need to license Oracle with the per-processor licensing model. If you can physically name your users, then 5 is the minimum you can buy.

HTH,
Brian

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