Subject: RE: (usr-tc) Licences for SAServer/RADIUS with Oracle

From: "Stainforth, Matthew" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 16:57:23 +0000

Then they obviously don't understand the nature of what you're doing.  It
might be more accurate to say that each chassis is a "client" of the
database - but even that is stretching it.

Matthew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Dobson [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:46 AM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: (usr-tc) Licences for SAServer/RADIUS with Oracle
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
> 
> > They may have been referring to a "per seat" fee - for each 
> user of THEIR
> > software. IE each desktop in your company that will be 
> using the database.
> > 
> 
> Absolutely not - they figure a user being authenticated by the RADIUS
> system is a user of the database. I kid you not! We already 
> pay for our
> staff to use Oracle.
> 
> > At 09:13 AM 10/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >That's crazy.  That's like Oracle telling a store owner they want a
> > >license fee for each product they sell listed in the
> > >database............"datums" should not have license fees :)
> > >
> > >
> > >On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Malcolm Dobson wrote:
> > >
> > >> We use version 6.0 of saserver with an Oracle backend. 
> Recently Oracle
> > >> (UK) have told us that we must pay an annual "Limited 
> User Programs"
> > >> Licence for each user in the users table. For our 
> operation this would
> > >> amount to some $40K (US) a year. We think this is 
> totally outrageous.
> > >> 
> > >> Has anyone else been asked to pay per-user licences by Oracle for
> > >> this?
> > >> 
> > >> Regards
> > >> 
> > >> Malcolm
> > >> 
> > >> Malcolm Dobson, Scotland On Line
> > >> www.scotland.net
> > >> 
> > >> 
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> > >Brian Feeny (BF304)     [email-masked]   
> > >318-222-2638 x 109	http://www.shreve.net/~signal      
> > >Network Administrator   ShreveNet Inc. (ASN 11881) 	      
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> > Clayton Zekelman
> > Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi)
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> 
> Malcolm
> 
> Malcolm Dobson, Scotland On Line
> www.scotland.net
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