Reply to post: Re: Ah, the old days

Oracle? On my server? I must have been hacked! *Penny drops* Oh sh-

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Anonymous Coward

Re: Ah, the old days

"You'd be surprised how unwilling some of the instrument vendors are to moving this DB onto a proper server in the datacentre!"

This may be a licensing thing.

In a previous life I had to learn about Oracle licenses. If I recall, there were financial savings to be had if you were able to meet the criteria for ASFU ("application-specific") or ESL ("embedded") instead of FUR ("full-use").

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