15Mar
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 Virtualized...
14Feb
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...
9Jan
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...
16Dec
Negotiating Software Contracts – Successfully Negotiating a Warranty Section
The Licensing Journal August 2016 A warranty is one of the most important contract provisions in a software contract. The warranty section deals with the performance of the software and what the licensor promises the...
27Nov
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...
27Sep
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...