I just completed a call with the Oracle rep (who is a salesman) for my organization and received some feedback about our licensing that has me more than a little confused. I am wondering if anyone can offer some insight or advice to help me understand the situation.
Back in 1999, our organization purchased parallel licenses for 2 Oracle servers with 8 concurrent users. My understanding (and our CIOs) was that ColdFusion would count as 1 user on each machine and we would have 7 developers on each box. Additionally, our understanding was that we need no licenses for a development box. The person I just spoke to explained that these licenses are not valid for the purpose of distributing information over the Internet (i.e. that using CF, PHP or anything else to draw data from the server) and that we will need to migrate to a per-processor model immediately in order to be in compliance. He also said that using a copy of Oracle for development purposes would require that we purchase licenses for the development boxes as well (which, incidentally, is at the same cost as a full blown production server). Before I contact the sales representative we originally spoke to on the matter, I wanted to see if anyone has had similar experiences or is familiar with the Oracle concurrent user licensing model in regards to the use of dynamic Web pages. I am thinking that under the terms of the license we originally purchased should cover the use of ColdFusion and that this guy is just trying to get me to buy stuff. M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
