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Understand your Oracle Licensing Agreements
Let the JoraPh Oracle licensing experts help you to understand your licensing agreements and show you how it all works.
The Oracle Standard Edition One, Standard Edition and Enterprise editions of the database can be licensed using the Named User Plus metric or the Processor metric.
Below is a brief synopsis of Oracle licensing terms and conditions.
Processor:
The Processor metric is used in environments such as the Internet where users cannot be identified and counted. This metric can also be used when the Named User population is very high and it is more cost effective to license per processor. The Processor metric considers all processors where Oracle is installed and/or running. Programs licensed on a processor basis may be accessed by internal users (including agents and contractors) and third party users. A license is required for each processor.
In Enterprise Edition an allowance (discount) is made for multicore chips. For the purposes of counting the number of processors which require licensing in the case of a Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with 4, 6 or 8 cores at 1.0 gigahertz or 8 cores at 1.2 gigahertz, "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .25. When counting the number of processors which require licensing for AMD and Intel multicore chips, "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .50. For newer IBM power series servers the licensing multicore factor is 1.0. All cores on all multicore chips are to be aggregated before multiplying by the appropriate factor and all fractions of a number are to be rounded up to the next whole number.
When licensing Oracle Standard Edition One or Standard Edition programs on servers with a maximum of one processor with 2 or 4 cores, only one processor is counted.
Named User Plus:
This metric can be used in all environments. There is no separate server license. Again, different rules apply depending on the edition:
Standard Edition One and Standard Edition:
These require a minimum of five Named User Plus licenses or the total number of actual users, whichever is greater.
Enterprise Edition:
This requires a minimum of 25 Named User Plus licenses per corresponding number of processors or the total number of actual users, whichever is greater.
