It's been like this for years Crs/OGI is free if used to protect oracle OS or SW or run in oracle HW with in place support. Sent from my iPhone 5 George Leonard __________________________ Georgelza@xxxxxxxxx +27 82 655 2466 > On 28 Mar 2015, at 21:30, Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 28/03/2015 10:34 AM, Mladen Gogala (Redacted sender mgogala@xxxxxxxxx for >> DMARC) wrote: >> Hi Mark, >> Clusterware is free. You can install clusterware without paying and use it >> to fail-over MySQL service. Oracle licenses are not free. > > Thanks Mladen. This reflects a change since last time I looked at the > clusterware license, and you are absolutely correct. Confirmation at > http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DBLIC/editions.htm#BABHIAAF which states: > > " > Oracle Clusterware > > Oracle Clusterware provides cluster membership and high availability > monitoring and failover. Oracle Clusterware may be used to protect any > application (restarting or failing over the application in the event of a > failure) on any server, free of charge. Oracle will provide support for > Clusterware only if the server is running an Oracle product, which may > include Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris, that is also under Oracle support. > " > > /Hans