That is true I believe. Of course that also depends on any "deals" you may have with Oracle.=20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of STEVE OLLIG Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:04 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Oracle Options > Usage, not installation or deinstallation, determines what you pay. How does licensing of these features work for test instances? Say we use and pay for partitioning in production, do we also need to license the test box for EE w/ partitioning? I'm told for us the answer is yes. If we want to use partitioning in a test instance we have to pay for it. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email=20 ______________________________________________________________________ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l