How does an IU department acquire Oracle software?

On this page:

• Eligibility
• Platform and software matrix
• Price list
• Clients
• Acquiring Oracle at IU

Eligibility

Indiana University departments can take advantage of the IU-Oracle license agreement as long as the department has enough hardware and support resources to maintain an Oracle database, and the Oracle database will not be used for external commerce, i.e., the Oracle database will not be part of a system to generate income from clients external to IU. The license agreement covers use that directly relates to IU's missions of teaching, research, and service, but explicitly excludes non-academic uses of the product in the medical sciences, such as use of the product for the business side of clinical practices. UITS groups order their software directly from the UITS Database Administration (DBA) team. Visit the DBA team's Request Forms page to make an Oracle software request.

All other non-UITS requests are made through the Enterprise Decision Support Services (EDSS) group, which maintains an online form.

Platform and software matrix

Note: All products are available for 10g and 11g. IU's license agreement with Oracle now includes the data partition option. The license agreement does not cover the grid computing option known as RAC.

Price list

Prices are listed below. Note the following:

• Prices are for fiscal year 2008-2009 (the IU fiscal year runs from July 1 through the end of June).
  
  
• A department needs to purchase a minimum of one license in order to receive the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition software and support.
  
  
• A separate license is required for each machine running the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition software in a production environment. A production environment is one that supports the work of the department, without regard to scale.
  
  
• Additional licenses do not need to be purchased for test or development machines.
  
  
• A single production-level Oracle instance spanning multiple machines requires only one license.
  
  
• There are no extra fees for acquiring software upgrades when they become available.
  
  
• Licenses need to be renewed each fiscal year.
  
  
• If you have any questions about pricing, contact EDSS.

Clients

Oracle Net Services client software is available at no additional cost for Windows NT, 2000, XP Professional Edition, and Vista. For installation instructions, see At IU, how do I install the Oracle 10g client? or At IU, how do I install the Oracle 10g client release 2?

Acquiring Oracle at IU

To acquire Oracle software, the following requirements must be met:

• The software can be used only by IU departments.
• The software cannot be used to generate income from clients external to IU.
• You may not transfer your right to use this software to anyone.
• You may not give, loan, sell, rent, or lease this software to anyone.
• The computer upon which Oracle is installed must be owned by an IU department.
• The department must dedicate one support person as the Oracle administrator.
• The designated Oracle administrator must demonstrate to EDSS proficiency in both Oracle administration and SQL.

Note: For information about installing Oracle and Client software, server administration, and SQL*Plus, see the EDSS Oracle page.

Fill out one request per computer that will run the Oracle Enterprise Edition Server Software. To complete the request form, you will need the computer serial number, computer name, and platform.

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