RE: Oracle licensing...Named User Plus Enterprise Edition Oracle Database.

  • From: Bertrand Guillaumin <bertrand.guillaumin@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "exriscer@xxxxxxxxx" <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>, "Johnson, William L (TEIS)" <WLJohnson@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:21:47 +0000

Hi,
Just to add some precisions to what has been said .
In oracle licensing, you have minimums for the number of named user plus
licenses you need depending on the edition you use(you can find information
about the minimums in the Oracle Software investment Guide
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/sig-070616.pdf ) :
Enterprise Edition : 25 NUP per Oracle Processor(so 50% of your number of cores
for Enterprise Edition on x86) : 600 NUP in your case. It implies you have a
50% maximal reduction possible when licensing EE with NUP compared to
PROC(since 50 NUP licenses = 1 PROC license).
SE or SE1 : 5 users for the whole company(no server metrics or CPU metrics
involved) : 5 NUP in your case(this is the calculated minimum, not the number
of licenses to purchase ! )
SE2 : 10 users per server : 50 NUPs in your case.
Personal Edition : Limited to single user environment deployments(not available
for multi users environments).

So here you effectively need 600 NUP licenses for Enterprise Edition, since
you need to license the calculated minimum of NUP(600) or the number of
users(23) whichever is greater.
It implies that for SE or SE1 you would need 23 NUP(number of users), for SE2
50 NUP(calculated minimum).

Best regards,
Bertrand Guillaumin

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Envoyé : lundi 14 décembre 2015 22:27
À : Johnson, William L (TEIS)
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Objet : Re: Oracle licensing...Named User Plus Enterprise Edition Oracle
Database.

it's 600 NUP you need, forgot to say that

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Ls Cheng
<exriscer@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
hi
you have to license 23 developers in every single server, it works like you
have said, Named User Plus Server licenses
I am pretty sure it works this way because one of my customer was audited by
LMS, this customer has 1200 NUP accessing around 20 servers, they thought NUP
can access unlimited servers if the users are in the 1200 NUP model, it turns
out that it does not work such way


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Johnson, William L (TEIS)
<WLJohnson@xxxxxx<mailto:WLJohnson@xxxxxx>> wrote:
I know there have been many, many threads in the past on Oracle licensing. I
still have a question and need some input.

I would want to license development databases by Named User Plus for this
exercise.

I only have 23 developers to license for this exercise. There are no other
users, no internet access and no machine accounts connecting – only the 23
developers access the environment.

I want licenses for the following landscape that consists of five X86
technology servers. Four servers have eight cores and one server has sixteen
cores.

How many NUP licenses do I need to buy – and why?

A: 200 NUP licenses? (16 * 50% * 25)
B: 600 NUP licenses? (4 * (8 * 50% * 25) + (16 * 50% * 25))
C: Some other number I do not know about…

Here is the crayon drawing of the landscape…
As a side note, I do not wish to license by some strange metric like Named User
Plus Server licenses – think Microsoft CAL when thinking about this exercise.
The license is called Named User Plus – there is no reference to a server or
machine in the title or description of the license.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and input.

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