Additionally, Oracle does not provide support for software downloaded via OTN. <QUOTE> No Technical Support Our technical support organization will not provide technical support, phone support, or updates to you for the programs licensed under this agreement. </QUOTE> However, support is provided (given you have a valid support contract) for software downloaded through edelivery. How can they tell? I have no idea. In other words, if I were deploying a production database, I would download through edelivery. No sense in taking a chance. --Tom On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Fuad Arshad wrote: > dont think there much of a difference except eldelivery is for licensed > customer vs otn is for everyone. > oracle works on the honor system (and audits )in terms of features so > anything you download should have all the features now it sall depends on > what features are missing and what version of oracle are you using and > with that said enterpise and standard version of oracle have a different > feature set too. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l