Re: To ODA or Not?

  • From: George Leonard <georgelza@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx" <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:41:20 +0200

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.


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George Leonard
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> 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

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