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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. […]

Video: Speculation on Sun-Oracle merger
Scott D. RosenbergCost Containment/Negotiation, Enterprise Agreement, IT Asset Management, Oracle Licensing Compliance, software asset managementLeave a Comment on Video: Speculation on Sun-Oracle merger

While some information on Oracle’s acquisition of Sun has been made public, there are still a number of unanswered questions – one of them being about licensing. While we don’t have any more information on this, but we’re speculating that it can be a very sweet deal for the right company.

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 […]

Reinstatement, renewal and the benefits
Scott D. RosenbergContract Lifecycle management, Cost Containment/Negotiation, Enterprise Agreement, Oracle Licensing ComplianceLeave a Comment on Reinstatement, renewal and the benefits

Today, mergers and acquisitions are as common as marriages or people setting up households together, and may present unfounded opportunities for lowering your Oracle support stream and uncovering more favorable terms and conditions. Reinstating terminated support. When a company takes on an acquisition or makes a divestiture, the hard assets – furniture, equipment, electronics, etc. – are easily categorized or sold off, but it’s easy to overlook “soft” assets such as software, licensing and support. In both scenarios (M&A or […]

Question on Oracle Processor Core Factors?
Scott D. RosenbergCost Containment/Negotiation, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle: News You Can Use1 Comment on Question on Oracle Processor Core Factors?

We get a lot of questions about Oracle’s processor core factors. Core factors can change and this is particularly difficult when you’re the person in charge of tracking changes in licensing or the procurement process. Case and point, the Sun UltraSPARC T2+ core processor licensing changed from 0.75 to 0.50. As soon as the change is in effect, your organization is considered out of compliance. See Oracle Processor Core Factor Table, which charts vendor and core processor licensing factors. Changes […]

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