Licencing

[satish]

Hi erman,

We have got 10 enterprise edition licences.4 for ERP prod, 4 for UAT and 2 for Dev.

We are planning to decommission dev instance,so we will have 2 cores free.

We have one standard edition oracle database(non-erp). Can we convert to enterprise edition and use those 2 cores for nonerp database.

Thank You

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

I suppose you already know that, there is a core-factor concept in licensing Oracle Databases..
The CPU based licensing for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition is actually done on core-basis.
We count the cores of our database server, then multiply this total physical core count with a core factor (0.5 for Intel CPUs) to calculate the needed CPU/processor licenses for our database environment.

Note that, to properly convert from an Enterprise Edition database to a Standard Edition database, you must perform an Export/Import operation. -- Step by Step Procedure to Convert from Enterprise Edition to Standard Edition (Doc ID 465189.1)

Also note that the changes in features and be prepared before migration to standard edition..
Example doc: Differences Between Enterprise, Standard and Standard One Editions on Oracle 12.1(Doc ID 1628809.1) -- check the relevant doc. prepared for your actual database version / release.

[ErmanArslansOracleBlog]

You may terminate your enterprise edition license and purchase a standard edition.. there are avantages for terminating it but it depends if you will use your enterprise license one day in the future or not.. ( and it idepends on time, like when in the future..)
( terminating it ) or ( leaving it and paying the support fee for a potential near future use).. these seems like the options..
I dont think you can convert an enterprise edition license to a standard edition license.
But I m not a salesman. These are just opinions. Ask it your Oracle sales representative.

[satish]

Thanks for the update.