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Category: Oracle Licensing Tip

How does the EU software resell ruling affect Oracle users?

On the new permissible reselling of licensing in the EU….Miro is saying: “While I am not sure this will ever be allowed in North America by Oracle Corporation, I can say that even if it is allowed, the acquiring company would likely be required to sign off on a new OLSA (oracle licensing software agreement) which would govern the terms of the newly acquired licenses. I am quite certain Oracle would not allow a simple transfer of negotiated terms and […]

Who should track Oracle licensing changes?

Who is responsible for tracking Oracle licensing? Whose job is it to notify organizations about these changes? Eliot Arlo Colon, President of Miro Consulting, discusses the tracking of Oracle license changes.

Using Oracle Database Firewall

We’re all familiar with network firewalls, which prevent unauthorized access to your network from external sources. However, network firewalls don’t protect your databases from malicious attacks, which sometimes come disguised as privileged internal users. Web applications are a major source of data attacks, through stratagems such as SQL Injection, for example. Oracle’s Database Firewall (a product Oracle gained through its acquisition of Secerno, a British firm, in 2010) offers a solid defensive perimeter to monitor and enforce accepted behavior on […]

Oracle in the Cloud

Oracle distinguishes between private and public clouds, with private clouds being what an enterprise can host within its firewalls – Oracle itself has one of the largest private clouds in existence. A public cloud, designed to take advantage of virtualization, shared services and consolidation features, is what we generally mean when we refer to cloud computing.

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