Methodically counting Oracle licenses across different environments and infrastructure types is a critical pre-requisite to effective Oracle license management. I figured it would be helpful to gather
On January 23, 2017, Oracle stirred up a storm in its user community by announcing a significant change to its licensing policy in third party cloud environments . With this unilateral pronouncement,
This article is part of our 10-part series on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In this article, we will go over a few important areas that can have a major impact on the economics of an OCI journe
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Is Oracle’s “ Processor ” license definition technically flawed? If yes, then what are the implications for license calculations, and the infamous “installed and/or running” language? How would this i
In the coming weeks and months, I’ll be posting a series of articles on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The “Gen 2” OCI is Oracle’s definitive platform for key IaaS and PaaS services around compu
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