Licence and apex user

Hi,
Apologize for this question, i am new in this technologie. It is about the user who use tha application on apex. Does it is a oracle user ? and in this case we should pay a licence for each user who use an apex's application ? or it is different user ?
Best Regards
Pintball

Hello Pintball,
If your user is a 'real' Oracle user or not has no effect on the license.
You can use an XE database (with it's limitations) for free, or get a license for a Standard Edition (One) or Enterprise Edition database if you need that one.
If you can't tell the number of users (i.e. in an internet app), you have to get a license based on the number (and type of) CPU's.
Greetings,
Roel
http://roelhartman.blogspot.com/

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