Oracle licences

we have the Oracle9i database server installed on windows 2000 and need to do some web projects using CGI/Perl from a linux user account. However I couldn't install the DBD:Oracle module on our linux machine. I checked some reference and they said to have a full client install of
oracle on linux is needed. Is it true? The problem is that what we bought is Oracle 9i Releasse 1(9.0.1) CD Pack for Microsoft Windows. Do we need to buy another licence to install oracle client on linux? Is there any other way to
install DBD:oracle?
thanks a lot for your help!
Jenny

Oracle is very greedy. I believe that you do need a licence for each named user (as opposed to concurrent user), and server that you have. See the link below for their terms of licensing.
https://oraclestore.oracle.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=11365&media=os_g_english_help_licensing

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Hi,
Can somebody help me in understanding the number of oracle licences required for the following server specifications :-
Server is SUN V890 4x UltraSparc IV DualCore running Solaris 9.
Please be elaborative , as I need to understand and learn, how is it being calculated.
Regards
Sumit

If you go to http://store.oracle.com, choose your country, and then choose Licensing Definitions you will see text along the lines of
sumitsingh3 wrote:
Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a processor basis may be accessed by your internal users (including agents and contractors) and by your third party users. For the purpose of counting the number of processors which require licensing for a Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with 4, 6 or 8 cores at 1.0 gigahertz or 8 cores at 1.2 gigahertz for only those servers specified on the Sun Server Table which can be accessed at http://oracle.com/contracts , “n” cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .25. For the purposes of counting the number of processors which require licensing for AMD and Intel multicore chips, “n” cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .50. For the purposes of counting the number of processors which require licensing for all hardware platforms not otherwise specified in this section, a multicore chip with "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying "n" cores by a factor of .75. All cores on all multicore chips for each licensed program for each factor listed below are to be aggregated before multiplying by the appropriate factor and all fractions of a number are to be rounded up to the next whole number. When licensing Oracle programs with Standard Edition One or Standard Edition in the product name, a processor is counted equivalent to a socket.
If you follow the link again and get to the Sun Server table, I don't see a V890 listed. I also don't believe the V890 is using the UltraSPARC T1 processor, so you would end up using the 0.75 multiplier rather than the 0.25 multiplier.
Given that,
4 sockets * 2 cores per socket * 0.75 = 8 * 0.75 = 6 processors
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Changing existing Oracle licences on all existing systems (ECC;CRM;PI,BI) with HANNA(and use HANNA DB)

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Maybe not the best section ..
But we have in mind changing existing Oracle licences on all existing systems (ECC;CRM;PI,BI) with HANNA(and use HANNA DB)..
I wander what would be pro and what cons?
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Hi Jan,
If I understand correctly you are going to perform database migration activity in your present landscape. Firstly you have to contact SAP as well as one of the third party hardware vendor (who is going to provide certified HANA hardware). SAP will provide you all the license details.
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Oracle Licence policy

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We have oracle 8i on TRU64 CLUSTER(active/passive) with 4 cpu on each machine.
As its active/passive cluster only one machine will be active at a time.
What should be the oracle licence policy on this kind of environment.
Do we have to pay for licence of both the machine or only one.
Thanks in advance

Yes, in fact, Oracle trusts the Customer will install and use the software according to the Oracle License Agreement. It is easier for both parties. If ever Oracle finds software misuse on the customer's side, the oracle representative may invite the customer to regularize the software or Oracle can sue the customer and most probably Oracle will win the trial. As you can see, you can download and install whatever you want, Oracle software is in no way protected like other software, but it doesn't mean this software is free and you can only install what you are entitled to, As previously stated this is only for your records.
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Oracle Licencing in Solaris Zones

Scenario
If we setup a server with 6 processors and we setup 1 resource pool with 4 processors called oracle_pool.
We then create 2 Oracle Containers both using the same resource pool, ie "oracle_pool", will I require 4, 6 or 8 Oracle Processor Licences ?
The CPUs are single threaded to keep it simple.
Every example I find only talks about one to one relationships between containers and resource pools.

I think your Oracle sales rep would have the final word on this, but I believe you would need 8 cores of license (2 x 4 core). Assuming you're not using a [discounted core from a multicore system|http://www.oracle.com/corporate/contracts/library/processor-core-factor-table.pdf] . You wouldn't owe for just 4 cores even though you've made a 4-core pool because you have 2 containers sharing that pool, which doesn't meet the '[hard partitioning|http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/consolidation/Containers_Oracle_041305.pdf]' requirement that would limit it to 4 (basically a pool dedicated to a single container).
As far as I know the licensing terms always refer to physical processors not
virtual processors. So 6 physical CPU's requires a licence for 6 processors.Looking at the first linked PDF, they track cores, not sockets... but they typically count each core in multicore as 0.5 or 0.75 of a license (so a single socket quad-core Xeon may need 2 licenses, not 4 or 1). But I don't make quotes for a living, so I may be totally wrong :)
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Oracle Licence Query

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I have an application to be migrated from Country to a Global DC. The application runs on Oracle 10.2g and both Oracle and Application are on the same server. We need to migrate this application to a new server in GDC and vendor informed that he would re-install the app and setup Oracle. There are 7 Oracle DB's on the current server and vendor say they provided licence for only 1 Oracle DB. Nobody know from where the licence for other 6 DB's were procured.
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First, let's get the usual dire warning about licensing and internet advice out of the way: Licensing issues are best confirmed by Oracle sales representatives.
One licenses a database server and not individual instances. There are two types of licenses: NUPP (named user) and PP (processor).
If the server was licensed for x number of users spread between the 6 databases and your new database would add another y new and distinct users you would need to purchase an additional y units of NUPP licenses. However if your database server has a processor license, there is no additional licensing required, however many database instances you cram into the server. This is for physical servers - for virtualized hosts this issue gets a little murky.
Now on the question of license number, there is nothing in the database that will tell you that. If the license is registered to the vendor then only they will have the information you want.

Oracle Licence Details

I am planning to buy an oracle 10g standard edition.
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Will it support ' Partion table' and 'nested table' features ? Should i go for a separate licence for it or Entreprise edition ?
regards,
JJ

JJ (user9164846) wrote:
I am planning to buy an oracle 10g standard edition.
What are the features available in it ?
Will it support ' Partion table' and 'nested table' features ? Should i go for a separate licence for it or Entreprise edition ?Oracle provides a document in their documentation set (see http://tahiti.oracle.com) called 'Licensing'.
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The oracle server was installed for more than 10 years !!
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We have OracleAS licenses (aquired before the acquisition of BEA) and we want to start new projects and migrate existing project in JDK 1.6
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-- Should we migrate our existing projects with OracleWeblogic 10.3 or OracleAS 11g?
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-- Should we migrate our existing projects with OracleWeblogic 10.3 or OracleAS 11g?
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Oracle Enterprise licence support and update policy

we are planning to buy a new oracle licence but do not want the update and support which is aditional cost...what i want to know is that is it mandatory to have the support and update ..
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When you buy a licence, you are able to unchecked the support cost. So, stricto sensu it's not mandatory.
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Yes, thanks for pointing that out. When you download a thousand times such details might just become lost behind a click, scroll, scroll and click procedure.
However, what I was trying to get at was that most product downloads if not all requires a "real" license, unless you want to only play a bit with it on your laptop. But in this case the license is somewhat more generous. Of course, you or your customers would still need to license the database servers.

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We are currently in the process of upgrading our database from version 8.1.6 to 9.2.0.4 and I've been given the joyless task of finding out the differences between the two to determine if we will run into any problems. Is there a centralized area that details the differences between each release? And not just the new features, but old features that have changed or have been dropped?
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Hi,
Good that you are exploreing lot many things. As you are already working on 8.1.6, I guess you know much about that. To get more on 9i features read this link
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96531/toc.htm
and 9.2.0.4 that 0.4 is a patch which you need to download from metalink site (metalink.oracle.com) for which you needs oracle licence.
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The company I am working for is about to evaluate the Oracle Transparent Gateway to connect 8.1.6 (on AIX) to MS/SQL Server (on NT). I have heard that you can do this via ODBC (on AIX) to ODBC (on NT).
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OK, I know this is a cop-out but Oracle Licencing is a very complex area that I try my best not to understand...... :)
The only way to get a definitive answer to this question is to discuss it with the Oracle Account Manager who is responsible for Oracle's relationship with your organization.

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