Re: Database Control vs. Grid Control
- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:39:34 +0100
On 4/2/07, Allen, Brandon <Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Wayne. I believe that whether you use the APIs/views or EM, a
Diagnostics Pack license is required, which in turn requires that you also
license Enterprise Edition, so it seems that if you only have Standard
Edition, you are not allowed to query the views no matter what. I
think most, if not everyone, on this list probably agrees this is a terrible
policy. I'm pretty sure someone on here even started a petition to try to
get Oracle to change it, but I haven't heard anything about that for a
while. I guess if I was collecting the checks for Enterprise Edition, I'd
probably like the policy :-)
That was me. The response I got from Oracle was essentially that whilst the
petition was useful, based on direct conversations with customers they
didn't really believe that SE customers would wish to use the packs anyway .
Personally I find that hard to believe, and whilst I personally would rather
that GC was a free product including at least the diagnostics pack, it does
seem incredible to me that Oracle would turn down a potential revenue stream
from SE customers. It also seems somewhat legally dubious to ship a product
that actually runs code that you cannot legally use, but I've long since
given up trying to understand law as it applies to software.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.orawin.info
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