Tell him your company is seriously considering moving to PostgreSQL and that until a decision is made on that matter you won't be in a position to make any decision.
At 10:46 AM 8/20/03 -0400, you wrote: >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 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
