on 5/19/05 12:04 PM, STEVE OLLIG at sollig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> 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. We use the "named users" pricing scheme for non-production servers and the "processor" pricing scheme for production servers. Check "http://oraclestore.oracle.com"; for information on how to calculate the minimum number of "named users" for a server for each type of product. They have a lot of this stuff spelled out, so people can actually buy products online... But of course, OracleStore.oracle.com doesn't address your question (licensing dev/test/etc), nor does it address the question of how to license a standby for Data Guard, etc... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l