Dennis,
PLEASE post your findings! I had to go through similar exercise recently
involving Oracle and Squeal Server, we may want to exchange notes off the
list.
Gary
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Taylor
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:20 PM
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I'm in the process of doing comparitive pricing betwwen oracle, sqlserver,
and db2. Unless someone objects, I'll give a general summary once the info
is in.
At 09:35 AM 3/9/01 -0800, you wrote:
>You can open a standby database in read-only mode
>now. How are you going to prove that you are not
>using it. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with
>Oracle licensing but the argument is off.
>
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>
>Yup, they want you to pay for it, because it is an additional x number of
>processors. They don't care that it's not really "on" or being accessed.
>At filefrenzy, this policy actually led us to turn off a few of our
>processors. ;-)
>
>Diana
>
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>
>If we put together a standby db (SUN 4500) is Oracle going to want more
>license money?
>
>Our thinking is, the license(s) we already own on the production server
>(also a 4500) cover us to keep the standby db going. We will not use the
>stand-by server for anything else. There will be no user access at all.
>Our (hungry?) Oracle rep is telling us that this is a clear case of
>"multiply by existing license(s) by 2", doubling our license costs. (Let's
>ignore all of the issues of power unit, named users, etc. for this
>conversation.)
>
>What has your experience been on this license issue for a standby db?
>
>
>Thx
>
>
>
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