This applies to both the application owner and to the eventual end-user. In order to qualify for ASFU Oracle licensing, the third-party application must be commercially available to multiple end-users (not, for example, exclusive to a certain type of user or group) and have end-user documentation. It is also the application owner's responsibility to ensure the end-user agreement they have with their own customers includes some very specific clauses, among which are ensuring their end-users are aware of the Oracle program usage restrictions, Oracle's intellectual property rights to its programs and preventing the end-user from giving away or transferring programs to someone else. Because the ASFU license is part of a third-party application, this also means all technical support responsibility transfers to the third-party (the application owner). Of course, this also requires the third-party to have maintained their own technical support with Oracle to ensure all patches and updates are included for the Oracle programs under the ASFU.
There is a common misconception that the best deals can be made at the end of Oracle's fiscal year. This stems from the thought that Oracle Sales Reps are desperate to make their yearly number and will do whatever is necessary to close a deal. The reality is that the same discounting process and conditions are applied throughout the year. Oracle is the most expensive database software on the market. False! This is a common misconception that stems from the fact that Oracle's database is arguably the most feature rich and reliable database on the market. In fact, Oracle Standard Edition One is one of the cheapest database products available. Not only that, you also get an incredibly powerful application development system included for free – Oracle Application Express (APEX). Oracle is ONLY meant for Government and Fortune 500 companies. False! Oracle can certainly handle the needs of large, mission critical, 7×24 database requirements but it can also handle the needs of any small business.
To break down the costs and to enable all stakeholders to make optimal licensing and configuration decisions, you need a Software Asset Management (SAM) Compliance Review of the deployed Oracle software on servers along with a review of your corresponding license documentation and licensing needs. The purpose of Oracle License Compliance Review is to identify possible legal and other risks associated with installed and used Oracle software and provide recommendations to reduce them. Benefits of Oracle License Management Control over Oracle estate and compliance risks through periodical SQUALIO conducted Compliance Review services. Readiness for Oracle LMS audit – during service SQUALIO helps to build Oracle Server Worksheet (OSW) and validate it. Cost reduction through potential Oracle agreement optimization and Oracle risk identification within typical licensing painpoints. On-demand information about Oracle products – centralized repository and actual technical data. Frequently met Oracle licensing painpoints for businesses Incorrect licensing in virtualization environments; Installed and used Options and Management packs; Use of database clusters and disaster recovery; Server hardware and core factor changes; User access through multiplexing; Non production environment licensing; Oracle license minimums per processor; Mix of different license metrics on the same server; When installing Oracle Enterprise databases, usually all the options and features are installed; Easy to trigger usage for Enterprise features by accident.
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Oracle's standard licensing rules – which usually are incorporated by reference in the Ordering Documents used to memorialize the acquisition of Oracle product licensing, include the following definition: Processor: shall be defined as all processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running…The number of required licenses shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores of the processor by a core processor licensing factor [specified by Oracle on its website]. The SLSA and Ordering Documents do not explicitly address how to apply that definition in a virtualized computing environment, where a server with a certain number of virtual cores may run – or may have the ability to run – on one or more physical hosts. However, a reasonable interpretation of the above language is that only the physical cores actually used by a VM running an Oracle product, and not all physical cores within the larger virtualization environment, must be licensed for that product. However, Oracle has published a "policy" document on its website, titled "Oracle Partitioning Policy | Topic: Server/Hardware Partitioning" (the "Partitioning Policy").
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The Partitioning Policy purports to elaborate upon Oracle's standard requirement that licenses be purchased in connection with "processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running, " to require that all physical processor cores on all hosts in certain virtualization environments be licensed for an Oracle product that is used anywhere within those environments (even on a single virtual server running on a single physical host within a multi-host environment). Our understanding is that the technology AWS uses to provide the AWS EC2 environment is not among the technologies identified in the Virtualization Policy that Oracle has approved for avoiding the all-processor-cores requirement that the policy otherwise would purport to apply. In addition, Oracle also has published a separate "policy" document on its website, titled "Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment" (the "Cloud Policy"). The Cloud Policy purports to apply to the usage of Oracle products in AWS's EC2 environment (among a couple other cloud environments), and it specifies that certain kinds of licenses for Oracle products deployed in AWS EC2 environments where processor hyper-threading is enabled essentially have one-half the value of the same kinds of licenses for the same products, when those products are deployed in a licensee's own datacenter.