Oracle database licensing

[Beantree]

Just got off the phone with my Oracle sales rep, and I cannot believe what he is telling me, and am hoping for some veriication.

He tells me that if I have a standby database that it must be separately licensed. Meaning that if you have a single DB, using a standby DB for disaster recovery or system maintenence (9i) that you have to pay twice as much, even though only one is ever online at any one time.

He also said that if you had a 2 machine cluster in an Active/Passive mode, that they wouldn't consider that scenario as needing 2 licenses.

Anyone have any insight into this?

It seems to me that the standby DB is a feture of the DB, and should not have to be separately licensed.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi, Your sales rep is wrong ( only one server will be running, either production or standby )..Ask to speak to his manager..
If that fails, you can do this:
Keep your existing processor-based license.
Purchase a named-user license for as few users as you can get - 1 or 2 should do - for your standby database -( you will really probably only need a sysdba user to use it to recover your 'production i.e. processor-based licensed' copy)