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Category: Oracle Licensing Tip

Oracle in the Cloud
Sam AlapatiOracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can UseLeave a Comment 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.

How auto renewal and misinterpretation of the terms and conditions of support renewals can affect your SLA
Scott D. RosenbergContract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Enterprise Agreement, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, software asset managementLeave a Comment on How auto renewal and misinterpretation of the terms and conditions of support renewals can affect your SLA

Auto renewal on your maintenance and support agreements need to be closely monitored.

Has Oracle changed its policy on licensing databases on VMWare?
Scott D. RosenbergEnterprise Agreement, IT Asset Management, Licensing Change Alert, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip4 Comments on Has Oracle changed its policy on licensing databases on VMWare?

We recently answered that question in SearchOracle.com, where Miro is part of the Ask the Oracle Expert: Questions & Answers column. Here’s the original question and our answer. Has Oracle changed its policy in licensing databases on VMware? From my understanding, they are treating VMware as soft partitioning. Is there any official documentation with regards to VMware/Oracle licensing that I can refer to? Yes, in a nutshell it is treated like soft partitioning given that they are not recognizing VMware […]

Rebalancing your Oracle licenses: Put your existing assets to work
Scott D. RosenbergContract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Enterprise Agreement, IT Asset Management, Oracle Licensing TipLeave a Comment on Rebalancing your Oracle licenses: Put your existing assets to work

Why not put your existing Oracle assets to work without having to commit to a large upfront investment? License rebalancingTM is the art of taking existing licensing – such as Concurrent, Named User, application specific and/or CPU-based licensing – and converting them to generate a new license that is more value to your organization, while creating cost efficiencies. It is possible and very probable that the initial act of rebalancing your Oracle licenses will result in an initial 5-10% savings. […]

Retailers: Are you licensed correctly?
Scott D. RosenbergEnterprise Agreement, IT Asset Management, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing TipLeave a Comment on Retailers: Are you licensed correctly?

Retailers are a unique breed when it comes to licensing. We recently worked with a number of retailers seeking to understand their Oracle licensing and they all had a mix of Named User Plus licensing and CPU licensing. With Oracle or any enterprise software for that matter, licensing is about access and authority, but not necessarily limited to people. The latter being an extremely important point to software licensing, usage and retailers. One of the major differences in the retail […]

Enterprise agreement: What should “getting the best deal” really mean?
Scott D. RosenbergContract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Enterprise Agreement, Oracle Licensing TipLeave a Comment on Enterprise agreement: What should “getting the best deal” really mean?

The name of the game with any software licensing agreement is to get the best deal, but most executives equate this to discount. And, while we love discount, you always have to look at the longer term pitfalls or benefits. Much of the time, a sales rep offering you a discount – say 20% – on a large enterprise agreement negotiation, it sounds great. But, when you look at how software licensing works, the changing dynamics and business goals of […]

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