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/
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