| Oracle® Database Licensing Information 11g Release 1 (11.1) Part Number B28287-01 |
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| Oracle® Database Licensing Information 11g Release 1 (11.1) Part Number B28287-01 |
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This chapter describes the four Oracle Database editions and the features available with those editions. It contains the following sections:
Oracle Database is available in five editions, each suitable for different development and deployment scenarios. Oracle also offers several database options, packs, and other products that enhance the capabilities of Oracle Database for specific application purposes. This section describes the Oracle Database editions. The database enhancement products are described in Chapter 2, "Options and Packs".
Oracle Database Standard Edition One Oracle Database Standard Edition One delivers unprecedented ease of use, power, and performance for workgroup, department-level, and Web applications. From single-server environments for small business to highly distributed branch environments, Oracle Database Standard Edition One includes all the facilities necessary to build business-critical applications.
Oracle Database Standard Edition Oracle Database Standard Edition delivers the unprecedented ease of use, power, and performance of Standard Edition One, with support for larger machines and clustering of services with Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC). Oracle RAC is not included in the Standard Edition of releases prior to Oracle Database 10g, nor is it an available option with those earlier releases.
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Oracle Database Enterprise Edition provides the performance, availability, scalability, and security required for mission-critical applications such as high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, query-intensive data warehouses, and demanding Internet applications. Oracle Database Enterprise Edition contains all of the components of Oracle Database, and can be further enhanced with the purchase of the options and packs described in Chapter 2, "Options and Packs".
Oracle Database Express Edition Oracle Database Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level edition of Oracle Database that is quick to download, simple to install and manage, and is free to develop, deploy, and distribute. Oracle Database XE makes it easy to upgrade to the other editions of Oracle without costly and complex migrations. Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size machine with any number of CPUs, stores up to 4GB of user data, using up to 1GB of memory, and using only one CPU on the host machine. Support is provided by an online forum.
Oracle Database Personal Edition Oracle Database Personal Edition supports single-user development and deployment environments that require full compatibility with Oracle Database Standard Edition One, Oracle Database Standard Edition, and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition.
Personal Edition includes all of the components that are included with Enterprise Edition, as well as all of the options that are available with Enterprise Edition, with the exception of the Oracle Real Application Clusters option, which cannot be used with Personal Edition. Personal Edition is available on Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit versions). The Management Packs are not included in Personal Edition.
Table 1-1 lists feature availability for Oracle Database Standard Edition One (SE1), Standard Edition (SE), and Enterprise Edition (EE). The Y value in a column means that the feature is available in the specified release; N means that it is unavailable. This table can help you understand the difference between the editions and determine whether you require Enterprise Edition (or Personal Edition for a single-user environment).
Note that Oracle Database XE is a separate product from the rest of the Oracle Database product family. The features available with Oracle Database XE are documented in Oracle Database Express Edition Licensing Information, which is installed along with the product itself.
Table 1-1 Feature Availability for Oracle Database Editions
| Feature/Option | SE1 | SE | EE | Notes |
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High Availability |
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Oracle Data Guard—Redo Apply |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Data Guard—SQL Apply |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Data Guard—Snapshot Standby |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Active Data Guard |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Rolling Upgrades—Patch Set, Database, and Operating System |
N |
N |
Y |
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Fast-start selectable recovery time |
N |
N |
Y |
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Comprehensive online schema reorganization/redefinition |
N |
N |
Y |
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Flashback Table |
N |
N |
Y |
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Flashback Database |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Total Recall |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Flashback Transaction Query |
N |
N |
Y |
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Block-level media recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Incremental backup and recovery |
Y |
Y |
Y |
SE1/SE: no optimized incremental backup |
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Parallel backup and recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Tablespace point-in-time recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Trial recovery |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Fail Safe |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Scalability |
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Oracle Real Application Clusters |
N |
Y |
Y |
Extra cost with EE, included with SE |
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Oracle Clusterware |
N |
Y |
Y |
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Automatic Workload Management |
N |
Y |
Y |
Requires Oracle Real Application Clusters |
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Performance |
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Query Results Cache |
N |
N |
Y |
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PL/SQL Function Result Cache |
N |
N |
Y |
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Client Side Query Cache |
N |
N |
Y |
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SQL Plan Management |
N |
N |
Y |
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Security |
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Advanced Security Option |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Label Security |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Virtual Private Database |
N |
N |
Y |
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Fine-grained auditing |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Database Vault |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Development Platform |
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SQLJ |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Requires Oracle Programmer |
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Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator support |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Active Directory integration |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Native .NET Data Provider—ODP.NET |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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.NET Stored Procedures |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Windows only |
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Manageability |
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Oracle Change Management Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Configuration Management Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Diagnostic Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Tuning Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option, also requires the Diagnostic Pack |
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Oracle Provisioning Pack |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Duplexed backup sets |
N |
N |
Y |
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Database Resource Manager |
N |
N |
Y |
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Oracle Real Application Testing |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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VLDB, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence |
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Oracle Partitioning |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle OLAP |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Data Mining |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Warehouse Builder Enterprise ETL |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Warehouse Builder Data Quality |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Warehouse Builder Connector—E-Business Suite |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Warehouse Builder Connector—PeopleSoft |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Warehouse Builder Connector—SAP R/3 Connector |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Advanced Compression |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Direct-Load Table Compression |
N |
N |
Y |
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Bitmapped index and bitmapped join index |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel query/DML |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel statistics gathering |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel index build/scans |
N |
N |
Y |
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Parallel Data Pump Export/Import |
N |
N |
Y |
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Transportable tablespaces, including cross-platform |
N |
N |
Y |
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Summary management—Materialized View Query Rewrite |
N |
N |
Y |
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Asynchronous Change Data Capture |
N |
N |
Y |
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Integration |
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Oracle Streams |
Y |
Y |
Y |
SE1/SE: no capture from redo |
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Messaging Gateway |
N |
N |
Y |
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Basic Replication |
Y |
Y |
Y |
SE1/SE: read-only, updateable materialized view |
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Advanced Replication |
N |
N |
Y |
Multi-master replication |
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Transparent Gateways |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Networking |
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Oracle Connection Manager |
N |
N |
Y |
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Infiniband Support |
N |
N |
Y |
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Content Management |
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Oracle Spatial |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Oracle Content Database Suite |
N |
N |
Y |
Extra cost option |
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Medical Imaging (DICOM) |
N |
N |
Y |
The following features related to application development are available only on Windows platforms:
COM Automation
Microsoft Transaction Server/COM+ integration
Oracle OLE DB Provider
Oracle Objects for OLE (OO4O)
VLM Support
OLE DB .NET and ODBC .NET support
Native .NET Data Provider - ODP .NET
Oracle Database Extensions for .NET (.NET Stored Procedures)
Oracle Database Express Edition Oracle Database Express Edition may be used for free, for the purposes of developing, prototyping and running applications. It can also be used for free to provide demonstrations and training. It may also be distributed for free with any applications. However, any use of the Oracle Database Express Edition is subject to the following limitations:
Express Edition is limited to a single instance on any server.
Express Edition may be installed on a multiple CPU server, but may only be executed on one processor in any server.
Express Edition may be used only to support up to 4GB of user data (not including Express Edition system data).
Express Edition may use up to 1 GB RAM of available memory.
The Oracle technical support organization will not provide technical support, phone support, or updates for Oracle Database Express Edition.
Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) When used with Oracle Real Application Clusters in a clustered server environment, Oracle Database Standard Edition requires the use of Oracle Clusterware. Third-party clusterware management solutions are not supported.
The license restrictions for Standard Edition must be adhered to. The maximum number of CPUs defined is for the entire cluster; it is not a per node maximum.
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) must be used to manage all database-related files. Third-party volume managers and file systems are not supported for this purpose. ASM is required for the storage of:
Database data files
Online logs
Archive logs
Control files
Server parameter files (spfiles)
Flash Recovery Area
RAW disk partitions are required for:
Voting disk
Oracle Cluster Registry
Local storage must be used for:
Oracle Home
Trace files
Dump files
No Oracle-maintained copies of any of the above files can exist in any other locations, with the following exception: Customers who want to manually script maintenance of a standby database can create a second copy of their archive logs outside of ASM on a local file system only, designated by the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n parameter.
RMAN backups of files can reside on either a local or network mounted file system.
No other cluster software can be installed on the system, including, OCFS, OCFS2, third-party clusterware, third-party cluster volume managers, and third-party cluster file systems.
Extended or stretch clusters are not supported with Standard Edition and Oracle RAC. An Extended or stretch cluster is defined as "A cluster where all nodes are not located in the same roomÓ.
Oracle Clusterware Oracle Clusterware can be installed and used to protect any Oracle or third-party software provided any of the following conditions are met:
The software being protected is from Oracle.
The software being protected uses an Oracle Database.
The software being protected is running on Oracle Unbreakable Linux.
The software being protected is running in a cluster where at least one machine involved in the cluster is licensed using the appropriate metric for either Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Standard Edition. A cluster is defined to include all the machines that share the same Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and Voting Disk.
Oracle Database Vault and Oracle9i Database Release 2 (9.2.0.8) A separate Oracle Database 11g can be installed and used to administer Oracle Database Vault when installed with Oracle9i Database Release 2 (9.2.0.8), without additional license requirements. All 9.2.0.8 databases managed by Database Control in this manner must be correctly licensed with the Oracle Database Vault option. The installation of Oracle Database 11g deployed in this manner may not be used or deployed for other uses.
Oracle Connection Manager Oracle Connection Manager can be installed and used on a machine different from the machine where the Oracle Database is installed and used. It is not necessary to obtain a separate license for the machine running Oracle Connection Manager.
Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC
Oracle Database Gateway for ODBC can be installed and used on a machine different from the machine where the Oracle Database is installed and used. It is not necessary to obtain a separate license for the machine running Oracle Gateway for ODBC.
Oracle Secure Backup Express Oracle Secure Backup Express is bundled with the Oracle Database. Oracle's technical support organization will provide technical support, phone support, or updates to you for Oracle Secure Backup Express when it is used to back up another Oracle Product that has a valid Customer Support Identifier (CSI). For example, if Oracle Secure Backup Express is used to back up an Oracle database that has a valid Customer Support Identifier, then Oracle Support provides technical support for the backup of this database.
Updates and technical support are only provided to customers who maintain technical support services for their Oracle licenses in accordance with Oracle's Technical Support Policies. Oracle Secure Backup is a separately licensed product and is supported in accordance with Oracle's Technical Support Policies.
Legato Storage Manager and Legato Single Server Version. Oracle Secure Backup Express is the replacement product for Legato Storage Manager (LSM) and Legato Single Server Version (LSSV). If you are currently using LSM or LSSV, then you can use Oracle Secure Backup Migration Guide to learn how to migrate these products to Oracle Secure Backup Express.
Oracle Secure Backup Express can back up an Oracle database as well as Oracle home files and other file system data requiring tape protection.
For more information on Oracle Secure Backup Licensing, see
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19090_01/doc/backup.102/b25528/toc.htm
Oracle Wallet
Oracle Wallet is a password-protected container used to store authentication and signing credentials, including passwords, private keys, certificates, trusted certificates, and TDE master keys. Oracle Wallet Manager is an application that wallet owners can use to manage and edit the security credentials in their Oracle wallets. Oracle Wallets can be deployed on clients, middle tiers, and database servers free of charge. However, the following features that use an Oracle Wallet in turn require licensing of the Oracle Advanced Security Option: PKI credentials and transparent data encryption master keys. Oracle Advanced Security option is not required when configuring wallets to secure communication between the Oracle Database and Oracle Internet Directory.
Infrastructure Repository Databases A separate Oracle Database can be installed and used as a Recovery Manager (RMAN) repository without additional license requirements, provided that all the Oracle databases managed in this repository are correctly licensed. This repository database may also be used for the Oracle Enterprise Grid Control repository. It may not be used or deployed for other uses.
A separate Oracle Database can be installed and used as a Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (OEM Grid Control) repository without additional license requirements, provided that all the targets (databases, applications, and so forth) managed in this repository are correctly licensed. This database may also be used for the RMAN repository. It may not be used or deployed for other uses.
Restricted-Use Licensing The following restricted-use licenses are included with Oracle Database 11g in the editions indicated:
A restricted-use license for Oracle Internet Directory (OID) is included with all editions if users use the Directory Naming feature to configure Oracle Net Services. OID may not be used or deployed for other uses. Please contact your Oracle sales representative for additional information on Oracle Internet Directory (OID).
For OS/390 implementations of Enterprise Edition, use of either Access Manager for CICS or Access Manager for IMS/TM is included.
A restricted-use license for Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J) is included with all editions except for Oracle Database Express Edition. This embedded version is provided solely to support Oracle Enterprise Manager (Database and Grid Control), Advanced Queuing Servlet, iSQL*Plus, Ultra Search, Workflow, Oracle Content Database Suite, Records DB, and Warehouse Builder, and may not be used or deployed for other purposes.
The Oracle Standard Edition One, Standard Edition and Enterprise Editions of the database can be licensed using the Named User Plus metric or the Processor metric. The Personal and the Lite Editions can only be licensed using the Named User Plus metric.
Processor This metric is used in environments where users cannot be identified and counted. The Internet is a typical environment where it is often difficult to count users. This metric can also be used when the Named User Plus population is very high and it is more cost effective for the customer to license the Database using the Processor metric. The Processor metric is not offered for Personal and Lite Editions.
Different editions of the Oracle database have different ways of counting the number of processors that require licensing. For Standard Edition or Standard Edition One editions of the programs, a processor is counted as equivalent to a socket, irrespective of the number of cores on the chip in the socket.
Oracle Standard Edition One may be licensed only on servers that have a maximum capacity of two (2) sockets. Oracle Database Standard Edition can be licensed only on servers that have a maximum capacity of four (4) sockets.
For the Enterprise Edition and associated options, the number of processor licenses required depends on the hardware being used.
For a Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with 4, 6, or 8 cores at 1.0 gigahertz or 8 cores at 1.2 gigahertz for only those servers specified on the Sun Server Table, "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .25. The Sun Server Table can be accessed at
http://oracle.com/contracts
For the purposes of counting the number of processors that require licensing for AMD and Intel multicore chips, "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores by a factor of .50.
For the purposes of counting the number of processors that require licensing for all hardware platforms not otherwise specified in this section, a multicore chip with "n" cores shall be determined by multiplying "n" cores by a factor of .75. All cores on all multicore chips for each licensed program for each factor listed above are to be aggregated before multiplying by the appropriate factor and all fractions of a number are to be rounded up to the next whole number.
Named User Plus This metric can be used in all environments. Different minimums apply depending on the Database edition:
Standard Edition One requires a minimum of five (5) Named User Plus licenses or the total number of actual users, whichever is greater. Oracle Standard Edition One may be licensed only on servers that have a maximum capacity of two (2) sockets.
Standard Edition requires a minimum of five (5) Named User Plus licenses or the total number of actual users, whichever is greater. Oracle Database Standard Edition can be licensed only on servers that have a maximum capacity of four (4) sockets. Oracle Database Standard Edition includes the Oracle Real Application Clusters database option. The Oracle Real Application Clusters option is not included with any Standard Edition versions prior to Oracle Database 10g. Customers who participate in the Oracle Update Subscription Service for the Standard Edition Database can upgrade to the 11g version of the product for the supported licenses. Also, customers must use Oracle Clusterware as the clusterware; third-party clusterware is not supported, AND customers must use Automatic Storage Management to manage all data.
The Enterprise Edition requires a minimum of 25 Named User Plus per corresponding Processor licenses or the total number of actual users, whichever is greater.
