Hi Jeff If you have 10 NUP licenses : The 10 names users (Peter xxxx, Poul yyyyy, Jeff zzzz , ... ) are allowed to access any number of standard edition databases. You could create 10000000 SE databases on one machine or 1 database on 1000000 machines but it is only the 10 named users that is allowed to use the databases. Beware it is not allowed to create application users via web services on the internet since this has to be licensed on with processor licenses. /Gram Best Regards / Venlig Hilsen Peter Gram Miracle Consulting <http://www.miracleas.dk> Borupvang 2c, 2750 Ballerup, Denmark Cell: (+45) 53747107 Home: (+45) 38745696 Office Phone: (+45) 44668855 Office Fax: (+45) 44668856 Mail: peter.gram@xxxxxxxxxxxx OakTable member <http://www.oaktable.net> <http://www.oaktable.com/> ---------------------------------------------------- On 5 February 2013 22:42, Jeff Chirco <JChirco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a question regarding the named user license that I am confused on. > If we have a 10 user Standard Edition license is that 10 users for the > server or is it 10 user per database running on that server? Or is it > worse than that, is it 10 user for that one database so if we created a > second database on that same server does that require another license? > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l