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Oracle’s New Java Licensing Changes Could Break the Bank
Oracle’s latest licensing change for Java is certain to create even more confusion on an already problematic licensing model and give even more ammunition for the Oracle sales and auditing teams to attack Oracle customers.
On January 23, 2023, Oracle changed its Jav......
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Sweat the Small Stuff When Licensing Oracle Software
Enterprise-level software solutions often entail complex licensing challenges. Many of the thorniest questions often center on how to license software in virtualized environments, especially if the goal is to use something less than the full processing power of the hosting......
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Licensing Oracle Software in a Third Party’s Cloud
Many companies would like to know whether and to what extent their existing Oracle software product licenses entitle them to use that software in a third-party cloud-hosting environment – such as Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’s) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment – ......
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How to Contend with Oracle’s Many Licensing Policies
It is common practice for software publishers to incorporate by reference various licensing rules and policies to govern the usage of the publishers’ software products. For example, Microsoft’s volume license agreements (such as MPSAs or Enterprise Agreements) incorp......
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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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Avoid Oracle ULA Termination Risks
Many software publishers recognize that perpetual licenses should be, true to their name, perpetual, and that unless you violate the terms of the licenses they should remain in effect forever. As the licensee, you may not want to use that Microsoft Office 97 license you ......
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Hosting Oracle Software Carries Risks
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution-delivery model is becoming more and more widespread. Developers of all kinds of software solutions – products covering everything from office productivity, design, accounting, CRM, business intelligence and more – increasingl......
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Oracle Licensing: Hard Partitioning and Disaster Recovery
When licensing Oracle products, many businesses fail to understand the licensing requirements for virtual technologies and disaster recovery. These licensing mistakes can result in significant unbudgeted expenses related to Oracle software licensing.
(1) Virtualization
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Oracle Audit Risks
Oracle maintains what I consider to be the most aggressive audit program of any major software publisher. Its licensing rules can be extremely difficult to understand, and they frequently are not clearly stated in the applicable license agreements. Moreover, Oracle’s L......
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How to Understand Oracle’s Use of its Partitioning Policy for Virtualization
Oracle’s “Technology” software products (such as its WebLogic and Database programs) are very popular products. Unfortunately, as we have explained numerous times here, Oracle’s license agreements and compliance practices entail numerous pitfalls for unwary users......
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Licensing Implications of Oracle’s NetSuite Acquisition
On July 28, Oracle announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire NetSuite for approximately $9.3 billion. NetSuite was founded in 1998 and is one of the very first, enterprise-level, cloud-services providers, delivering various, hosted enterprise resource planni......
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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 ......