if oracle database 11g express edition is free why does SAM pro normalizes it to licensable product?

[PriyankaAng]

i have identified few of the oracle express edition installations in our environment however it is clearly mentioned on oracle website that this product is completely free still why SAM pro normalizes it to licensable product. 

[Joe Ryder]

Be careful regarding OTN licensing for larger deployments. It's free under the proper use cases. There are ways that Oracle may insist that the product is not under proper use:

https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/database-11g-express-license.html

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Any use of the Oracle Database Express Edition is subject to the following limitations;

1. Express Edition is limited to a single instance on any server;
2. Express Edition may be installed on a multiple CPU server, but may only be executed on one processor in any server;
3. Express Edition may only be used to support up to 11GB of user data (not including Express Edition system data);
4. Express Edition may use up to 1 GB RAM of available memory.

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In an audit situation, there are possibilities of overage use, which may require applying the license of a higher edition. My experience has been that ServiceNow attempts to keep risky software at its forefront. It's not an Open Source License.

If you do not want to see Oracle DB XE in your compliance views, turn of "License Under Management". Alternatively, if you don't want to normalize it or have it in your compliance data at all, delete the Software Model (assuming you have auto-create Software Models turned off). You will no longer see it in the compliance view in Workspace.

[peterikeda1]

It's because the licensable flag is set at the software product level (samp_sw_product > product_type) rather than at the edition level and express edition is still part of the Oracle database product family.