Hi,
Usually Oracle has a clause in their contracts that all Oracle Database
licenses must be with support or without support within a company, so if you
want to opt out of support you must do it for all your Oracle Databases
Licenses.
I assume it is not what you want to do, unless it is the only application that
runs under Oracle ?
The other solution would be to void your db licenses for a CSI(if it is
licenses bought only for that application) but then you cannot use them to
run Oracle anymore (which is what I suppose your Oracle contact understood you
wanted to do ).
Check your contracts though, but those clauses are pretty standard so you
probably fall under that case.
Best regards,
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Objet : Re: dropping oracle support - can't use software ?
A possible reason could be is that the licenses used for this server are part
of a larger purchase, in which case , you cannot stop the support for a part of
those licenses.
You would need to stop the support for all of them.
Which is why you need to be careful when you get the question from Oracle if
you would like to group several csi (purchases) into 1.
You would still be able to reduce the number of licenses, but than you indeed
cannot use these anymore.
But other than that, you should be able to stop the support and still be able
to use the software (enter non lawyer disclaimer here) .
When you want to reinstate the support, you will need to pay an additional fee
more information can be found here :
http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/057419.pdf
Although it is unclear to me if the license set would also be limited to a
support identifier of not.
Kind regards,
Freek
On do, 2016-02-04 at 12:01 -0500, ed lewis wrote:
Thanks for all your comments.
I'm not asking for legal advice, just if this has
happened to anyone.
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Subject: Re: dropping oracle support - can't use software ?
I agree with Andrew on being careful for legal advice on this forum or any
other. The only other thing I will say is that my BS meter was pegged when I
heard this comment.
"I spoke to an Oracle contract person about canceling our support. This person
mentioned that if we do, we will not be legally able to run any Oracle software
on these servers."
Alfredo
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Andrew Kerber
<andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
You really need to contact a lawyer on this question. Any answer you receive
here will be non-authoritative. In addition, there are many Oracle employees
on the list whose answer will be constrained by their official company line.
To you oracle employees - Im not intending this as an insult, I'm just
pointing out we cannot expect an answer outside of the official company line
from someone whose livelihood depends on Oracle.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:35 AM, ed lewis
<eglewis71@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:eglewis71@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello,
We've been asked to explore the possibility of dropping Oracle
support for a specific application. The plan is to retire this application
sometime in the next 18-24 months, but management is looking some
money now.
The support contracts for this environment run over $300k.
I spoke to an Oracle contract person about canceling our support.
This person mentioned that if we do, we will not be legally able
to run any Oracle software on these servers.
Has anyone come across this ? We've purchased the license
so why can't we run the software, but drop the support ?
Your feedback is appreciated.
Ed
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