Category: Compliance

Watch Your Whistle Blowers!

January 21, 2013January 18, 2013 Scott D. RosenbergCompliance, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Oracle audit, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Software auditLeave a Comment

90% of all audit letters sent in 2012 were the result of tips from whistle-blowers, according to the BSA.

Oracle Joins the BSA

January 17, 2013January 18, 2013 Scott D. RosenbergCompliance, Oracle audit, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, Software auditLeave a Comment

Late last year, Oracle joined the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

3rd Party Support

January 11, 2013 Scott D. RosenbergCompliance, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Support, Third Party SupportLeave a Comment

From OracleConnection and our very own Eliot Arlo Colon. Miro is asked all of the time about options outside of Oracle provided support. Clients are constantly seeking alternatives to the 22% of license fee Oracle charges for annual support renewals. Clients maintain several reasons to look at alternatives, including ‘budgetary constraints, escalation of costs (annual uplifts), ROI, customer sat issues related to support or just plain old ‘due diligence’’. Keep in mind that its ‘buyer beware’ when it comes to […]

Don’t Take Anything at Face Value

October 18, 2012 Scott D. RosenbergCompliance, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Compliance, software asset management, Software auditLeave a Comment

We talk a lot on here about being audited by your software vendor – from the letter, to the audit itself, to the fines and so on. What we have yet to warn you about is taking those auditors at face value – along with their math.

Oracle Enterprise Agreement: Is it capped or not?

June 29, 2012May 23, 2012 Scott D. RosenbergCompliance, Contract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, IT Asset Management, Oracle license, software asset management1 Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M4CupMNDg8

Oracle: Concurrent License versus Perpetual License

June 7, 2012May 23, 2012 Scott D. RosenbergAccess management, Compliance, Contract Lifecycle management, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, software asset managementLeave a Comment

Oracle Enterprise Agreement: Is it capped or not?

June 5, 2012May 10, 2012 Scott D. RosenbergCompliance, Contract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Oracle Licensing ComplianceLeave a Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M4CupMNDg8

Microsoft Windows Server Virtualization

May 28, 2012May 23, 2012 Scott D. RosenbergCloud, Compliance, Contract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Enterprise Agreement, IT Asset Management, Microsoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Licensing Tip, software asset management, Virtualization, WindowsLeave a Comment

Infrastructure grows and its mission evolves. To accommodate increasing workloads, faster, denser (i.e., more cores) processors are deployed, translating into additional investment in software. When Windows Server 2008R2 was released, Microsoft introduced new virtualization rights: – For Standard Edition, one (1) physical operating system environment (“OSE”) and one (1) virtual OSE. This is known as the “1+1” rule. – For Enterprise Edition, one (1) physical OSE and up to four (4) virtual OSEs. This is known as the “1+4” rule. […]

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