Re: Licensing for test and development servers?
- From: Jamie Kinney <OracleDude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Powell, Mark D" <mark.powell@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:36:44 -0700
We have production licenses. My question is around licenses for the
servers which are only used for development, test, QA, etc... Do you
have separate licenses for these servers?
-Jamie
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:04:40 -0400, Powell, Mark D <mark.powell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is not legal advice (see someone with a valid law practice for that)
> but it would appear that as long as you are working on a single copy of a
> program that you are not using for either your own internal use and that is
> not running at any other sites then you are developing and do not need to
> purchase a license. I would think program here could be plural as in you
> are developing an application that might consist of a dozen programs.
>
> But as soon as you use the programs to conduct training you must buy a
> license or if you start using the application either in-house or somewhere
> else you must buy licenses. Conducting training in advance of implementing
> the application either internally or externally would probably be a trigger
> point for requiring a license.
>
> This is the best I can figure it. We run production so we have licenses
> that I believe cover us, but it never hurts to try to keep up with this
> stuff. When in doubt dump the problem on management. If you are management
> then pass it by legal. Better safe than sorry.
>
> IMHO -- Mark D Powell --
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