If your servers are named users, then pack will be, if cpu then pack will be also. Since I'm not a lawyer, I'll simply leave it at that (a hint). Everyone has to deal with it. Good luck. Pertinent URLs Licensing Information: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b14199/edi tions.htm#CJAHFHBJ http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/license.102/b14199/opt ions.htm#CIHHIGBI Overview various Management Packs: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/prod_focus/db_mgmt.html Productivity discussions: http://www.oracle.com/database/db_manageability.html Joel Patterson Database Administrator joel.patterson@xxxxxxxxxxx x72546 904 727-2546 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Kerber Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:15 PM To: Oracle Discussion List Subject: oem licensing Can anyone point me to the rules for oem licensing? Its our understanding that the basic software comes free with Oracle enterprise edition, but we dont know any more than that. We are also looking to find something published from oracle on the licensing of the partitioning option in Oracle enterprise edition. -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'