Perpetual Licenses and Other Alternative Facts

Steve Russman, IBSMA, 2/1/2017

Julie Machal-Fulks, a technology attorney with Texas firm Scott & Scott, has handled hundreds of software audits and manages the firm’s Oracle practice. She helps her clients with everything from negotiating new license agreements, understanding existing license agreements, and resolving audit finding disputes with Oracle. After dozens of cases involving a wide variety of companies, there’s one thing, she says, that always takes clients by surprise: the Oracle termination clause.