Re: vmware & Oracle
- From: "Neil Overend" <neiloverend@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Mark Brinsmead" <pythianbrinsmead@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:32:32 +0100
After properly reading the licence terms it does seem that you have to
licence everything as soon as you use any application you've
developed, whether you sell the app or use for internal data
processing.
I'm willing to bet there are a lot of people who read
"All software downloads are free, and each comes with a Development
License that allows you to use full versions of the products only
while developing and prototyping your applications."
and assume all development is free and never read the detailed terms,
I was one of them. I've heard many people over the years express the
opinion that you don't need to licence development systems, although
they would all be techies who weren't actually responsible for the
licencing.
After investigating how my organisation licences oracle I discovered
that we actually pay a consultancy who specialise in oracle licencing
and we do cover development systems. Good job it wasn't up to me or
we'd be in big trouble :-)
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