Its worse than that - he's dead Jim. Ooops sorry wrong reference. The obnoxiously worded licence agreement states that std edition can only be licensed on a machine 'capable' of a maximum of 4 processors. If you have 2 processors in a chassis that can take 8, the agreement says that you need EE. There is also a RAM limit IIRC 4gb.
You may guess that I object to this stance. My reasons are 1. You should licence according to functional need not horsepower of box. N archive log destinations is not a function of Y processors. 2. There is no difference between machines with 2 processors in a 2 processor chassis and 2 processors in an 8 processor chassis. 3. Its all too expensive anyway. EE is the best marketing reason on the planet to adopt MSSQL. 4. I don't believe that any reasonable court will uphold the "ah but you *could* put 32 processors in there at some point I'll charge you 300% more for what you actually have" argument. 5. reasonable courts may not actually exist. Niall > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tim Gorman > Sent: 29 July 2003 19:34 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: Number of processors and standard edition > > > I'm pretty sure that SE will run on any size server, but > you'll be charged for EE when that server has more than 4 CPUs... :-) > > You'll see info for this at "http://oraclestore.oracle.com"; > when you try to price an SE license on a per-processor basis. > Click on the explanation of "User Minimums" for the verbiage... > > > > on 7/29/03 10:04 AM, Farnsworth, Dave at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > I am trying to find any info on if there is a maximum number pf > > processors that a server can have and have Oracle standard > edition run > > on it. Just looking to see if there is a cutoff point in > the number > > of processors where I would be forced to go to Enterprise > Edition of > > Oracle 8i.. I'm looking through the concepts docs but have not yet > > found this info. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dave > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Tim Gorman > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') > and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB > ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed > from). You may also send the HELP command for other > information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Niall Litchfield INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
