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 ..
thanks

When you buy a licence, you are able to unchecked the support cost. So, stricto sensu it's not mandatory.
But in the facts, it should be mandatory for a production database to be able to get lastest patches and lastest patchsets to fixed some bugs in the initial release, and under some circumstances, to be able to raise SR and get help from the Oracle support.
Nicolas.

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