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Three Actions Oracle Customers Should Take at the End of a ULA
Of the many complex licensing arrangements Oracle offers to its customers, none seem to generate as much confusion and consternation as the Unlimited License Agreement (“ULA”).
For companies that have already determined that they are not going to renew their ULAs ......
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Oracle ULAs Require Delicate Balancing
Many larger companies feel an understandable desire to move toward, centralized, enterprise-level software licensing agreements. Such frameworks often have the advantage of allowing licensees to spread their license spends more evenly over the term of the agreement and to ......
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Health Care Organizations Seeing Increased Audit Requests
During a global pandemic, health care organizations may have believed that they could focus solely on providing health-care services to their customary patient-base, along with those affected by COVID-19. Many of those organizations were surprised to learn that they were......
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Using an Oracle Server Worksheet to Respond to Oracle Licensing Inquiries
If your business receives an inquiry from Oracle requesting that you complete an Oracle Server Worksheet, you should proceed with caution. Answering the question without consulting a licensing expert and carefully evaluating the relevant license agreements can result in ......
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Oracle’s Aggressive Audit Tactics Draw Increasing Media Attention
“In hindsight, I should have involved our legal team immediately, since they were requesting information that had nothing to do with Oracle.”
Wise words.
A recent article published by Business Insider (here) is the latest in a run of recent media attention (more here) ......
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Oracle Minimum License Requirements
For many Oracle products, like Database, the license agreement or ordering documents contain minimum license requirements. Often, quantities of licenses necessary to satisfy the minimum licensing terms varies based on the edition of the license in question. For instance, cus......
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Oracle Faces Withering Criticism of Its Licensing Practices
Licensing software at the enterprise level is rarely a simple undertaking. Unless your company is big enough to demand custom licensing terms, most businesses will face the prospect of contending with license metrics that may work great for the software publishers, but that ......