UAB's Oracle agreement includes both site-licensed product available to the UAB community (for installation on UAB owned systems) and limited-use products based on a specific number of installations, users, or use. The current agreement renews each August and requires an annual payment and an annual true-up (purchase of additional licenses) to cover additional FTEs over the base FTEs covered the previous year.

Products Available

The following Oracle products are covered under a site license and are available to the entire UAB system at no additional cost. They may be downloaded directly from Oracle by clicking on the product below.

Server products are for use on Solaris, AIX, OS/390, UNIX, and Windows.

Client products are for use on Windows and MAC.

Oracle Database Enterprise Edition
Oracle Database Express Edition
Oracle Database Lite Edition
Application Server Enterprise Edition
Oracle Diagnostic Pack & Tuning Pack

The Diagnostic Pack and Tuning Pack functionality can be accessed through links in the Oracle Enterprise Manager as well as through the database server command-line APIs. Enterprise Manager must be installed to utilize the Diagnostic and Tuning packs.

Obtaining Products

Software may be downloaded directly from Oracle via their TechNet site or media purchased through AskIT (phone 6-5555 or email AskIT@uab.edu). You are only authorized to download product from the Oracle site that is listed in the Products Available section above. Both current versions and archived versions of Oracle DB are available on the Oracle web site.