Oracle License Calculation

Dear All,
We are doing broadcasting business. I have a server which will retreive data from Oracle database. And with the It will then broadcast the information retireved to all the Settop box.
Under this case. If using named user license calculation, the number of license is the number of connections to from the server to the Oracle DB ? Or the number of Settop box using ? total number of audience ?
Thx for your help.
Best Regards,
Hei

Oracle spells this out very carefully in one of the specialty documents available at http://www.oracle.com >> About Oracle >> Pricing and Licensing (or directly at http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/index.html)
In a nutshell: count 1 human who uses the data in electronic form directly or indirectly (via multiplex, web server, application, or other) as a user in Named-User-Plus. Count an autonomous device (transciever) that has no human interface but still interacts with the database as user as well.
ANy time you hit a few dozen users on a database, you should automatically start considering the per-CPU calculation as it does not care how many users are connected - and there is no client access license (CAL) as with some non-Oracle products.
As for the actual price, this is n opportunity to exercise your negotiation skills ... build a business case that shows your optimium fair price and discuss that business case with the Oracle sales rep.
Don't expect discount, and don't lose your cool. Just negotiate with the objective that both sides should and up comfortably satisfied. Your side should get licences at a price that meets your business case requirements; Oracle gets sales, revenue and profit.
However, if you don't have a business case to discuss, Oracle's sales people can legitimately think you are simply trying to get huge discounts. And that is not 'fair'.

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