Category: Oracle

Oracle License Services: Spending Money to Save It
Stefan SinghCompliance, Cost Containment/Negotiation, IT Asset Management, licensing, Licensing Change Alert, Managed Services, Miro News, Oracle, Oracle audit, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, software asset management, Software audit, software license, Term Licenses

Oracle licenses cost money. It can be a lot of money, too. So much so that companies are sometimes reluctant to invest in expert consulting services to help maintain licensing compliance simply because they have already spent enough on the software itself. But sometimes a company needs to spend money in order to save it. This is especially true when it comes to Oracle audit defense and other Oracle license management services. As a business owner or executive, you know […]

Is Java’s New Fee Structure Pricing Companies Out?
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Oracle’s new and well-published fee structure for Java is now in full force. It represents the fourth fee structure change in four years. Under the new schedule, companies using Java could pay 2-5 times more to continue using it. This begs a particularly important question: is the new fee structure pricing companies out? A January piece from Forbes Council’s Member Scott Sellers suggests that this is a very real possibility. Sellers notes that 98% of all businesses use Java for […]

Java Alternatives
Tim HegedusIT Asset Management, JAVA, licensing, Licensing Change Alert, Oracle, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, software asset management, Software audit, software license, Software Renewal, Support

On January 23, 2023, Oracle quietly announced their new licensing metric for Java, the Employee for Java SE Universal Subscription metric. Since then, Oracle has done two (2) things; possibly three (3): Oracle no longer offers the older metrics of Processor (servers, with the core-factor applied) and Named User Plus (workstations). Even if you had originally licensed the older metrics (beginning in April 2019 and ending just prior to the adoption of the new metric), once that term ran its […]

Solaris Support
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It’s official! Oracle has extended Solaris 11.4 support until 2037. In the latest update of their Oracle Lifetime Support Policy Oracle and Sun System Software and Operating Systems, dated January 23, 2024, there was an update. Release GA Date Premier Support Ends Extended Support Ends Sustaining Support Ends Solaris 8 Feb 2000 Mar 2009 Mar 2012 Indefinite Trusted Solaris 8.x Sep 2002 Mar 2012 Not Available Indefinite Solaris 9 Mar 2002 Oct 2011 Oct 2014 Indefinite Solaris Legacy Containers Dec […]

A Basic Introduction to Java’s Per Employee Metric
Stefan SinghCompliance, Contract Negotiations, Cost Containment/Negotiation, IT Asset Management, JAVA, Java Management Service, licensing, Licensing Change Alert, Managed Services, Miro News, Oracle, Oracle audit, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, software asset management, Software audit, software license, Subscription based license

Java compliance took an interesting turn last January when Oracle dispensed with its old licensing model in favor of a new per employee model. They introduced a per employee metric that simplifies licensing but likely raises the cost of using Java Standard Edition (SE) for most companies. Miro’s Java compliance services include a friendly Java license review that helps companies fully comply with the per employee metric. Compliance is no joke. Being found out of compliance could lead to hundreds […]

The Oracle License Review: Because Licensing Is Complicated
Stefan SinghCompliance, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Enterprise Agreement, IT Asset Management, JAVA, licensing, Managed Services, Oracle, Oracle audit, Oracle database, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle ULA, Oracle: News You Can Use, software asset management, Software audit, software license, Software Renewal, Subscription based license, Term Licenses

We often say that Oracle’s software licensing rules are complex and nuanced. But even our description doesn’t quite do justice to the rules. They are extremely complicated and subject to frequent changes based on both technical and non-technical developments. For this reason alone, we recommend conducting an Oracle license review from time to time. As Oracle licensing experts, we can assist you in this endeavor. We make it our business to stay abreast of any and all changes in Oracle […]

IBM’s Announcement on Oracle’s DBSE2
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In December of 2022, it was announced that IBM has “… a high-density 24-core processor for the IBM Power S1014 system (MTM 9105-41B) to address application environments utilizing an Oracle Database with the Standard Edition 2 (SE2) licensing model.”[1] There are two (2) fallacies with taking this announcement at face value: First, there is the constraint that “Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 may only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 2 sockets.”[2] So, if there is […]

Java Pressures
Tim HegedusCompliance, Cost Containment/Negotiation, IT Asset Management, JAVA, Java Management Service, licensing, Licensing Change Alert, Oracle, Oracle audit, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, software asset management, Software audit, software license

Miro Consulting has a long-term Client for whom Oracle is pressuring for their Java licensure. Oracle is using the existence of client downloads of for-fee versions of Java licensing to claim unauthorized usage. Whether these will be used on workstations or servers doesn’t matter. And the fact that it’s not installed and running doesn’t seem to matter to Oracle either. But what does matter is the following. The Java release is going to be or is currently used in development. […]

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