From: Ellen K. 

Well, when Oracle charges for the standby box, that's also only for the
database, so the comparison is still valid.

As for per-user, I can't imagine going per-user on a production database,
per-CPU gets cheaper at a pretty low number of users.

Oh, and if you go per-user with Oracle you have to buy a minimum of 25
users.   (Or maybe 25 per CPU, I can't remember now.   I was so
horrified at the idea of having to pay for the licenses for the standby
box, it addled my brain.)

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:32:29 -0400, "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
:

>I thought you might have been talking about the per-cpu for SQL server.  It
>doesn't work that way for the OS or the other type SQL Server license.
>
>- Bob comer
>
>
>Ellen K. wrote:
>> I only know about the per-CPU SQL Server licenses.
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:11:22 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>  wrote in message
:
>>
>>>> (For the record, Microsoft does
>>>> NOT charge for licenses for standby boxes.)
>>>
>>> I'm not so sure of that, at least for the OS, don't know for sure
>>> about SQL Server, but wouldn't that depend on what kind of license
>>> you bought to begin with?
>>>
>>> - Bob Comer
>

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