What does Oracle mean by “limited use programs” and how are they dealt with from a licensing perspective?

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Oracle summarizes under “limited use programs” all “Application Specific Technology” products. Those product are designated by the suffix “for Oracle Applications”, contain the same features as their full use counterparts, but may only be used with eligible Oracle Applications (for a full list of applications, please see the attached source documents). Moreover, some of these products come with additional license restrictions. Please find a summary of these restrictions in the following overview:

  • Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Fusion Applications Restrictions: can only be licensed with WebLogic Suite/WebLogic Suite for Oracle Applications, together with the SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware/SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware for Oracle Applications and must match the number of licenses to the associated applications
  • Oracle BPEL Process Manager Option for Oracle Applications Restrictions: may be used only to enable business processes, workflow interactions and approvals within eligible Oracle Applications.
  • Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite for Oracle Applications Restrictions: may be used only to perform query, reporting and analysis against a transaction database, data warehouse or an Essbase OLAP cube.
  • Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition for Oracle Applications Restrictions: limited for use within the same JVM as the Oracle Applications components.
  • Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition for Oracle Applications Restrictions: may only be used with the Oracle supplied data integration jobs and customization of the supplied jobs is allowed.
  • Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite Plus for Oracle Applications Restrictions: may be used to do the following: (1) add, delete, modify, and manage user identities and roles in the eligible Oracle Applications; (2) provide web access management and single sign-on into eligible Oracle Applications; (3) provide data storage—or virtualization to data storage—of user identities and user identity related information or authentication and authorization policies for eligible Oracle Applications; (4) provide federated single sign-on to eligible Oracle Applications.
  • Oracle SOA Suite for Oracle Middleware for Oracle Applications Restrictions: may be used only to enable integration, business processes, workflow interactions and approvals within eligible Oracle Applications.
  • Oracle WebLogic Suite for Oracle Applications Restrictions: may be used only as an embedded runtime for eligible Oracle Applications or to deploy customizations to an eligible Oracle Application. The WebLogic global datasource or one of the WebLogic application datasources must be configured to access the schema of an eligible Oracle Application.
  • Oracle WebCenter Imaging for Oracle Applications Restrictions: may be used to create and modify imaging searches, modify pre-packaged imaging application document types, and create and modify input mappings to imaging applications.
  • Oracle WebCenter Portal for Oracle Applications Restrictions: can be used only to surface the eligible Oracle application and custom applications. Surfacing any third-party applications, including other applications from Oracle, requires a full-use license.

Sources: Oracle Fusion Middleware Licensing Information User Manual_May 2018_as is 2019-03-20 Application licensing table_Oracle_March 2015_as is 2019-03-20

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