Sorry--I realized that after I read the posting. No, you absolutely do have to
license development servers properly. Some of my customers have claimed that
they use the OTN development license for their internal systems. I'm not a
lawyer, but there are a lot of restrictions in that license that rule out using
it for many of the typical "sandbox" purposes I see at most places.
I'm not the license police and try my best to learn only what absolutely
necessary to stay out of litigation :).
Sorry for any confusion. Please license your systems appropriately (but please
don't ask me what's appropriate :).
Dan
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From: "Closson, Kevin A" <kevin.closson@xxxxxx>
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 9:06:44 AM
Subject: RE: vmware & Oracle
vmware & Oracle
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We also use VMWare internally for Oracle development
systems, demos (we keep a "shelf" of demos that we can start up, demo, then
shut
down), and for additional desktops to support multiple VPN clients (since
different VPNs don't necessarily like each other much on Windows). As was
mentioned here, we wouldn't use it for production (and like Mark said--who
really knows how to license it properly), but love it for development.
...this insinuates you don't see the need to properly
license Oracle for development purposes. Am I missing
something?