I know nothing about Oracle licensing (except it's really expensive)....but I do know to NEVER trust a saleperson ;-)
I'd call the original salesperson and run it by him/her. If that person screwed up...it's Oracle's fault for having a salesperson misrepresenting the facts....they should GIVE you the correct licences if they were wrong IMHO Good luck Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Haggerty, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:46 AM Subject: OT: Oracle Licensing > 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
