Basic Rules for Oracle Licensing on-premise products

Basic Rules for Oracle Licensing on-premise products (applies to all products except for Oracle Java SE).

Oracle On-Premise Licensing Philosophy

Oracle licenses all its on-premise products on the following methodology:

• All features of the software program delivered should be available to the customers. This enables customers to decide which feature to use or not.
• Customers need to be informed about the licenses they have procured. To this end Oracle provides all licensing details in the public domain
• Customers are responsible for managing their licenses and compliance

Rules for licensing Oracle Technology Products

The key rules for licensing technology products are:

• You must license where Oracle products are installed
• You must license where Oracle products are running
• Both physical and virtual platforms must be licensed as per corresponding policies & guidelines
• The quantum of licenses depends upon the compute power of the server – higher the compute power means a higher number of licenses.

Rules for licensing Application Products

The key rules for licensing application products are:

• You must license the person using the application
• Users can be counted once across multiple environments
• You must license the quantum of usage of the application if not licensed by variations of the user metric

Read more about our Oracle licensing services

• ULA Management & Certification: https://rythium.com/oracle-ula-certification-exit/
• Java License Review: https://rythium.com/java-license-review/
• Oracle License Audit Defense: https://rythium.com/oracle-license-audit-defense/
• Oracle Pricing & Procurement Negotiations: https://rythium.com/oracle-pricing-negotiation/

If you want to learn specifically about Java licensing, go to https://javalicenseexperts.com/