Oracle Database 12.0 OTN dev license trial terms

Question

Hi,
I'm DBA and my company asked me to demonstrate VPD and proxy authentication of Oracle database EE 10.2 .
I need to learn these things and test some examples described in documentation .
May I for these purposes install on my notebook 10.2 EE database downloaded from OTN under Development license ?
XE doesn't contain these features :)
Is the trial period restricted to 21 days ?
regards
Janus

Answer 1

1) The license says you can only use the database to
create a[i] single prototype. No real ambiguity, is there? Just need to answer
whether 'learning' does fit into the definition of
'creating a prototype'?
OK there isn't. Or have I understood it properly that Application X using one purely development schema appowner means one prototype. And as soon as one creates second schema on the same DB or different DB then it is the second prototype.
So nice until now. Of course the question remains - what is that kind of licence worth because I've yet to be find an app developed just on single schema all its lifecycle including development and test. OK even if such app exists I'd better won't use it :)
2) It does go on to say that the prototype can not be
put into production - internal use or commercial -
without getting an appropriate license. The question about test and other possible development instances is not 100% percent clear to me although I'm quite sure that these must be more than one prototype...
>
Fine - this ensures the dev license is not inherited
by the prototype
3) It states that any other use requires contacting
Oracle sales for an appropriate license.OK this is the bright side of life because it means negotiations and these almost always leads to some compromises :)
4) You may not: [some lines skipped] - continue to
develop your application
If 'learning' IS permitted under the definition of
prototype, then what is an application? Can a single
SQL statement be defined as an application?Yeahhh and at least to my mind it definitely cannot be described as "indefinite development purpose".
Bottom lines:
1) If it's simple SQL you are wanting to learn, use
Oracle Express Edition;
2) If you wat to learn all of Oracle capability AND
want to stay perfectly legal, purchase the relatively
inexpensive Personal Edition - it has all otyhe
features of Oradle Enterprise Edition and is actually
less expensive than Microsoft Office Professional.Of course this absolutely contradicts to the goal of developing an app on the as much as possible close environment as real production will be...
So the bottom bottom line is - speak and get __written__ licencing contract from your sales rep for everything anyway, isn't it? :)
Gints Plivna
http://www.gplivna.eu