Oracle Partners in India

LDS Infotech Pvt. Ltd. is a Gold Level Oracle Partner Network (OPN). This partnership
enables us to create rich solutions for broader markets, and bring even greaterer values
to our customers through solutions that address a broad range of business needs. It also
enables us to increase our understanding on oracle technologies and develop elite
technical expertise. Being an OPN member entitles LDS Infotech Pvt. Ltd. for training,
support, marketing services and resources from Oracle, which further allows us to
provide valuable support to our customers.
It is innovation that drives Oracle's success and it is one of the first companies to make
its business applications available through the internetan idea that is now pervasive.
With the release of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle has begun debuting new products
and functionality that reflect the company's goal: connecting all levels of enterprise
technology to help customers access the knowledge they need to respond to market
conditions with speed and agility. Today, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle EBusiness Suite, Oracle Grid Computing, support for enterprise Linux, and Oracle Fusion
all fuel a commitment to innovation and results that has defined Oracle for thirty years.
Today, Oracle is the largest business software company in the world, with 345,000
customersincluding 100 of the Fortune Global 100and supports these customers in
more than 145 countries.
Oracle Licensing
The following licensing metrics are available:

Processor Licensing

You pay per Processor you run the Oracle software on; however Oracle has a special
definition of Processor which is consistent with Intel, AMD, HP and IBM but does not
match Sun's one.
Intel Hyperthreading technology that makes one core looks like two counts as 1
processor for this purpose. Other soft partitioning technologies are treated differently;
for example, the Solaris OS has a concept of Containers, this is similar to hard
partitioning on an HP machine; however Oracle does not recognize software
partitioning with Solaris Containers prior to Solaris 10; and even then there are
stipulations. Hard partitioning methods such as Sun's Domains, IBM's Logical
partitioning are recognized as legitimate methods to limit the amount of resources that
can run the Oracle software.
Multi-core processors are priced as (number of cores)*(multi-core factor) processors,
where the multi-core factor is:

0.25 for SUN's UltraSPARC T1 processors (1.0 GHz or 1.2 GHz)

0.50 for other SUN's UltraSPARC T1 processors (e.g. 1.4 GHz)
0.50 for Intel and AMD processors

0.50 for SUN's UltraSPARC T2 processors (updated Oct 1, 2009 - previously 0.75,
see note below)
1.00 for IBM's POWER6 processors
0.75 for all other multi-core processors
1.00 for single-core processors

For example, a SUN UltraSparc T1 system with 4 x eight-core processors will require
4*8*0.25 = 8 licenses. This is just an example. Sun UltraSparc T1 and T2 are not SMP
capable, only Sun UltraSparc T2+ is SMP capable. Similarly, an IBM AIX system with 4 x
eight-core processors will require 4*8*0.75 = 24 licenses.

Named User Plus Licensing

Pay per user, however user is defined as any end-node that receives data from or
creates data for that Oracle DB including human users. The classic case would be a
grocery store system that is taking data from refrigerator thermometers and point of
sale systems; in one case a user is a thermometer and in another case the user is the
checkout clerk, or in the case of newer self-check out terminals it would be the
customer; thus in this example one would explore processor based licensing.

Oracle Database Standard Edition: 5 Named User Plus licenses

Oracle Database Enterprise Edition: 25 Named User Plus licenses per CPU
Oracle Application Server Standard Edition ONE: 5 Named User Plus licenses
All other Oracle Application Server products: 10 Named User Plus licenses per
CPU

Named User Licensing

Named User (NU) licensing limits the number of individuals authorized to use Oracle on
the specified computer.
NU licensing is not available for new contracts anymore. Although, some customers may
still maintain/renew their NU license agreements.

Concurrent Device

Concurrent Device (CD) licenses were defined as the 'Maximum amount of input devices
connecting to the designated system at any given point in time'. There is a Network
version of this license which has slightly different terms.
For Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, a minimum of 8 Concurrent Device licenses per
Processor applied. This is a very old licensing metric and anyone using it on multi-core
processors, or moving to such, lice should conduct a license a cost assessment.
This model is not available anymore. Although, some customers still maintain/renew
their CD license agreements.

Application Specific Full Use Licensing

An Application Specific Full Use (ASFU) license is a restricted type of license sold by a
Solution Provider in conjunction with its third-party Application Package.
For example, you can buy a ASFU license from SAP AG to use Oracle with the SAP/R3
system. This license would then be application specific and cannot be used for anything
else.

Embedded Software License

An Embedded Software License (ESL) is a very restrictive license type available from
Independant Software Vendors (ISVs) who embed Oracle technology into their product.
An end-user may not even be aware that the software package contains Oracle
technology and should not be able to access it directly as a developer or system
administrator.
An example of this licensing model in use may be a Point of Sale system that requires a
database to log transactions.

Other Considerations

Note that the standard Oracle License and Services Agreement only allows use of Oracle
software for internal business operations. Other uses, such as a hosting service or an
ASP, will require an agreement that extends the usage rights to cover such scenarios.

Oracle Partners in India

LDS infotech is amongst the Gold rated Oracle Partners in India. LDS, on one hand works
on the principles and rules laid by Oracle and on the other hand work towards
providing the best of solutions to the customers. LDS has been in the industry for more
than 12 years and has never recieved any complaint when it comes to handling queries
regarding Oracle. LDS, a gold level Oracle partner, is commited to provide solutions and
work on innovations that make work simpler and better. The training, support and
resources that Oracle provides to LDS makes our team one of the most efficient Oracle
Partner Network in India.
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