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Microsoft Assessment & Planning (“MAP”) Toolkit
Tim HegedusCompliance, IT Asset Management, licensing, Licensing Change Alert, Microsoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Licensing Tip, Microsoft Software Assurance, Microsoft: News You Can UseLeave a Comment on Microsoft Assessment & Planning (“MAP”) Toolkit

Licensing for Microsoft Server products can often be complex and challenging when trying to maintain compliance with their Microsoft SLAs, while at the same time trying to optimize their software investment.

Two Upcoming Webinars – Microsoft and Oracle Live Q&As – Sign up now!
Scott D. RosenbergMicrosoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Licensing Tip, Microsoft Software Assurance, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft: News You Can Use, Miro News, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, Software audit, software licenseLeave a Comment on Two Upcoming Webinars – Microsoft and Oracle Live Q&As – Sign up now!

Sign up today for our next two Live Q&A Webinars – and get your questions in early to ensure that we can get to them. Looking forward to “seeing” you there!

Satya Nadella: Clean Up the Licensing Mess!
Scott D. Rosenberglicensing, Microsoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft: News You Can UseLeave a Comment on Satya Nadella: Clean Up the Licensing Mess!

ZDNet’s Ed Bott, writing about the Six challenges for Microsoft as the Satya Nadella era begins, lists as Number 4: Clean up the licensing mess. Enterprise customers experience real pain every day thanks to Microsoft’s unbelievably complex licensing rules, which are practically sadistic. Glad we aren’t the only ones saying this!    

Licensing Oracle in Windows Azure
Scott D. RosenbergCloud, Core Licensing, Microsoft, Oracle license, Virtualization, WebLogic, WindowsLeave a Comment on Licensing Oracle in Windows Azure

Microsoft and Oracle have an enterprise partnership that will allow their customers to run Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure. Customers will be able to deploy Oracle software — including Java, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server — on Windows Server Hyper-V or in Windows Azure and receive full support from Oracle. This essentially makes the Windows Azure platform the equivalent of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud or the EC2 environment and it makes Azure an alternative to the EC2 environment.

How Microsoft Enterprise Agreements affect SQL upgrades
Tim HegedusMicrosoft Enterprise Agreements, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Software Assurance, SQLLeave a Comment on How Microsoft Enterprise Agreements affect SQL upgrades

Microsoft offers a trade-in program for the SQL server 2012 licenses. The trade-in takes effect at the renewal of Software Assurance. So that means re-upping, re-enlisting for another term of Software Assurance, which makes this trade-in something less than free. This is not a scenario that never ends. The qualification of licenses ends on April 1, 2015.

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