Not appreciating the rules of virtualization When Oracle is run on virtualized servers, there are specific licensing rules to follow and non-compliance can very feasibly and conservatively generate a non-compliance penalty in the region of 5 million for a large enterprise. Interpreting this incorrectly can significantly affect licensing costs from anywhere between $163,000 (£10,000) and $800,000 (£50,000) per processor, because options and management packs require additional licensing and should not be present if not needed as this rapidly adds to the total cost. Secondly, you need to know whether any management packs have been ‘accepted’ or options 'granted,' to use Oracle's terminology.
There are two aspects to this, firstly you need to know what databases are installed and what editions they are i.e.
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