Dave, As a member of the Academic Computing Advisory Committee I would have expected you to work towards change in a more constructive manner. Derek McCammond >I've been investigating an educatonal licenses for the >Oracle Database package. It turns out that Oracle has a >fairly generous package that provides educational access >to almost all of their software. See details below. > >ANYONE INTERESTED IN FORMING A CONSORTIUM TO GET THIS >SOTWARE AT UofT, please identify yourselves. > >Dave Wortman, Department of Computer Science >[log in to unmask] 978-6055 > >P.S. If you are wondering why I'm doing this instead of >UTC Licensing folks, it's because they don't have a clue >about educational licenses for Oracle and the commercial >license they were trying to sell me would have cost about $40K. > > >GORY DETAILS GORY DETAILS GORY DETAILS GORY DETAILS GORY DETAILS > > >Oracle Educational Institution Program License Agreement > >Cost is C$5,000/year for unlimited users > >Products included: > Oracle Database Servers (Workgroup and Enterprise) > long list of Oracle database options including > distrubted and networking > Personal Oracle, Oracle WebServer, > {Developer,Designer,Discoverer,Programmer} 2000 > Oracle Power Objects, SQL*Plus, Procedural Builder > >Software is available on all hardware/OS platforms supported by Oracle. > >The license allows for use "solely for non-commercial classroom >and educational purposes provided that such use excludes the >Licensee's own internal data processing operation". >Educational use includes use in research (e.g. graduate theses). > >We're allowed to make unlimited copies of the programs and documentation >for the purposes cited above. > >License includes "Bronze" level support (whatever that means). > >Fairly standard set of conditions to protect their intellectual >property rights. There is a restriction on "disclosure of results >of any benchmark tests of the Program to any third party without >Oracle's prior written approval." > > >OBLIGATORY WEB PAGE REFERENCE > >http://www.oracle.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office of the Vice-President & Provost - University of Toronto Simcoe Hall, 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 Phone: (416) 978-3870 / Fax: (416) 971-1380 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------