RE: Another Iicensing conundrum
- From: "Powell, Mark D" <mark.powell@xxxxxxx>
- To: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:11:37 -0500
Someone needs to read your initial purchase contract. Did you purchase
a perpetual license or was a "lease" agreement signed. That is, you may
have effectively just leased the software. In our initial contract the
acquiring of the software and the maintenance agreements were separate.
Depending on which products you have both positions may be true.
-- Mark D Powell --
Phone (313) 592-5148
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M Hand
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:01 AM
To: oracle-l
Subject: Another Iicensing conundrum
Greetings,
With the usual caveats that we are not lawyers, I would like
your opinion on licensing and annual support. The question is whether
annual support is required to use licensed products.
The long story:
My management and I believe that the perpetual database license
gives one permission to use the licensed product regardless of a ongoing
support contract. And the support contract gives one Metalink/SR
access, permission to upgrade, and other non-license support. We expect
to discontinue all database usage by the end of this year and have not
renewed our support for 2009. Oracle is now coming back with the
position that no support contract equals no permission to use licensed
products.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Mike Hand
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