Active Data Guard Licensing

I have no idea where to ask this question and if I'm asking in the wrong forum I'd appreciate it if someone can direct me to the right one.
I have a physical standby server and I'd like add the Active Data Guard option to it to offload ETL processing. If I want to use named user plus licensing, how many named users to I need to pay for? There is only 1 server, 1 process, and 1 user that will be pulling data from this standby server into a SQL Server landing store database. Eventually the data will make it into a data warehouse (also SQL Server), SQL Server Reporting Services, and SQL Server Analysis Services. Between SSAS and SSRS there might be 100 distinct users on the front end, but they are all several levels removed from the standby server.
So the question is how many named users do I need to buy? The definition of "named user plus" in the licensing definitions is about as clear mud. I think I only need 1. But it could be 25 based on minimum # of users for EE. And it could be 100 if every user of SSRS and SSAS is counted individually.
I'm trying to avoid doing processor based licensing which is equally unclear but on initial impression seems to be much more expensive. The standby server in question has 2 dual core intel xeon processors, running on Windows 2008 R2. The version of Oracle is 11GR2 Enterprise Edition. If I've done the math right, processor licensing comes out to 23k.

Hello;
Active Data Guard does need a license and you are in the correct forum. But only your Oracle salesperson can answer this question.
Was at Cloud Control class last month and several DBA's there thought everyone has a similar license agreement. Not true. So somebody here might guess at your answer, but in the end only Oracle's answer will count.
Best Regards
mseberg

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