Business Intelligence - Discoverer Viewer

Hi,
If we have 1 license for Business Intelligence Standard Edition, and we have one user who will use Discoverer Plus and 20 users who will use Discoverer Viewer, do we need to get more licenses for the Viewer or we can have as many users as we want to use the viewer with 1 Business Intelligence license?

Hi
Discoverer Viewer is licensed the same as Discoverer Plus. If you have 1 Plus user and 20 Viewer users you need to be licensed for 21 users.
You can either buy named users or you can buy an unlimited license. The cutover point is 25 users becauses the last time I looked I believe the per user price was $800 and the perpetual was $20,000 per CPU.
The minimum purchase for named users is 5 so are you absolutely certain that 1 license you have isn't a perpetual license or even perhaps a Discoverer Admin license?
You should discuss this with your Oracle sales rep who may well be able to get you a better price.
Best wishes
Michael

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