Careful with your licensing... Oracle is very funny about the way it
does things.
The enterpise version is the same regardless of use in production,
development, or test. The same goes for standard edition. What is only
different is the cost and they way it is licensed.
Some things to consider:
- If you can't track exactly who is using your application at any
given time, then you'll need a CPU license. (Web Applications, or
internal developed communcations are an excellent example).
- Development licenses need to be purchased (regardless if you use OTN
or not). The stuff provided on OTN really is for personal exploration
and not for company development (regardless of what people tell you).
- You have to purchase X amount of licenses for development or test
per cpu (regardless of the amount of developers you have. I think the
minimum is 25 licenses per CPU (but that is often negoiated with Oracle
at time of purchase) even though you may have only 2 developers.
- You can't install a standard edition of Oracle on a box that can
hold more than 4 CPU's regardless of the amount of CPU's you have on
the box. Example: A Sun E3000 can hold up to 8 CPU's. Although you
have only 2 installed, the box can physically take more than 2 and
therefore is required to have an Enterpirse license.
Hope some of this helps.
Received on Tue Mar 14 2006 - 19:00:36 CST
