Re: Oracle HTTP Server
- From: Mark Brinsmead <pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jobmiller@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:20:52 -0600
Thanks, Job.
I guess I rarely read the portions of the License documentation relating to
HTTP server. :-) (But then, since I never really do anything with it, why
would I?)
The term "restricted use" should be defined somewhere. If you dig deep
enough, you'll probably find that it means something to the effect of "to be
used only for the purpose Oracle provided it for." That is, you can use the
Oracle HTTP server for Database Control, or APEX, or whatever, but you can't
use it to host your own web content. Of course, there is a good chance,
too, that the term is never defined, in which it means only (and exactly)
what you and Oracle Corp. can get a *judge* to agree what it means. :-(
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Job Miller <jobmiller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/license.112/e10594/editions.htm#CJAHFHBJ
>
>
> For 10g-11gR2, according to the DB licensing guide:
>
> A restricted-use license for Oracle HTTP Server is with all editions
> (except for Oracle Database Express Edition) when the HTTP Server is running
> on the same server as the database. Running Oracle HTTP server on a
> different server requires that other server be licensed to use the HTTP
> server, either through an Oracle Database license or an Oracle Application
> Server license.
>
> So as long as the server you want to run the HTTP server on is licensed for
> the DB, you were okay as of 11gR2. I can't see how a policy could
> retroactively nullify that restricted use license.
>
> Also, it isn't clear what restricted means. Oracle HTTP is just Apache
> 2.x, so anything that runs on Oracle HTTP would run on Apache. Was the 3rd
> party app an APEX or mod_plsql app, or were the using some other aspect of
> the HTTP server (PHP, mod_perl, etc..)
>
> If it was anything other than mod_plsql, I'd be surprised to see a third
> party attaching themselves to Oracle's HTTP Server since it really is just
> Apache.
>
> Job
> --- On *Fri, 4/16/10, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Sandra Becker <sbecker6925@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Oracle HTTP Server
> To: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 12:27 PM
>
>
> SUSE10 on IBM zSeries
> Oracle EE 10gR2
>
> We wanted to evaluate a product that requires Oracle HTTP Server. The
> vendor for the product says what we need is included no charge in EE. My
> Oracle rep says that effective 4/1/10 it isn't however, I'm not confident he
> really knows what he's talking about since he's given me incorrect
> information before. Does anyone know where I can go on Oracle's web site to
> verify?
>
> --
> Sandy
> Transzap, Inc.
>
>
>
--
Cheers,
-- Mark Brinsmead
Senior DBA,
The Pythian Group
http://www.pythian.com/blogs
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