Hm, I think the Oracle pricing is based on processor power or the number of named or concurrent users or a complicated mixture of both....
what I can say for sure is, that is is rather expensive and complicated. and you always have minimum numbers to by (in germany for example, the cheapest possible installation is 5 named user and one cpu for the database). depending on the implementation, you might get away without having installed oracle clients. using jdbc or a web browser as UI. however, the oracle pricing does not care. a user accessing oracle via a web browser is a paying user as well. although no oracle software at all is on his/her computer. sorry my email does not claryfiy much about the use of mapinfo on oracle.... but at least it is friday afno. christof > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Freitag, 19. M�rz 2004 14:57 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: RE: MI-L MapInfo 7.5 & Oracle Client > > Sarah > > You will need a 9i client on each machine - this is an Oracle requirement. > This may vary from territory to territory but at least in the UK Oracle base > pricing on the CPU power of your server, not on the number of clients - > effectively the client is a free piece of software. Oracle used to audit > database useage annually to set a fee - even then I think you could have as > many clients as you wanted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10969
