Dear Amir, please have a look at the Oracle software investment guide (link below), it covers your questions with a lot of scenarios. http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/sig-070616.pdf Kind regards Manuela Atoui On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Hameed, Amir <Amir.Hameed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to understand how the named user licensing in Oracle database > works and would like to know if I have the right understanding. Based on > what I know, named user licenses are based on the number of concurrent user > connections that are allowed to connect to a database. For example, if a web > application connects to an Oracle database under the same database username > and there are twenty users of that web applications then a minimum of 20 > user licenses will be required? Also, it seems that the parallel processes > and the job queue processes also show up in the status that V$LICENSE > reports. > > > > Thank you > > Amir > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l