For many Oracle products, like Database, the license agreement
or ordering documents contain minimum license requirements. Often,
quantities of licenses necessary to satisfy the minimum licensing
terms varies based on the edition of the license in question. For
instance, customers are required to purchase additional Oracle
Database Standard One Edition and Standard Edition Named User
licenses in increments of 5. Database Enterprise Edition requires
customers to purchase 25 Named User licenses in increments of 25
per processor.
These minimum license quantities can become critical in an audit
by Oracle. If Oracle concludes that a customer using Database
Enterprise Edition has a license shortage, Oracle will generally
require the licensee to purchase an additional 25 User licenses for
each processor on the hardware with the Oracle installation. This
minimum quantity applies, even if the licensee needs only one
license.
