Re: Another Iicensing conundrum
- From: Bill Zakrzewski <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: handdba@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:45:24 -0500
Mike -
If you purchased the "perpetual" database license, my understanding is
the same, you can use the database forever but can only upgrade and
get support with the annual contract. If you miss a year of support
you will probably have to buy another perpetual license....this keeps
customers from trying to save money by not buying the support contract
each year. It has been a couple of years since I read an Oracle
software contract, but that was my understanding back then.
Things change and differ for some customers, so you probably have to
review the contract your company has with Oracle.
-Bill
On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:01 AM, M Hand wrote:
Greetings,
With the usual caveats that we are not lawyers, I would like your
opinion on licensing and annual support. The question is whether
annual support is required to use licensed products.
The long story:
My management and I believe that the perpetual database license
gives one permission to use the licensed product regardless of a
ongoing support contract. And the support contract gives one
Metalink/SR access, permission to upgrade, and other non-license
support. We expect to discontinue all database usage by the end of
this year and have not renewed our support for 2009. Oracle is now
coming back with the position that no support contract equals no
permission to use licensed products.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Mike Hand
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