Month: March 2018

Oracle Applies AWS Hyper-threading Policy to Microsoft Azure On January 23, 2017, Oracle updated its policy about licensing Oracle software in cloud computing environments. The impact to current AWS and Azure subscribers are: An AWS vCPU equates to one (1) hyper-thread of a Xeon CPU core – essentially half of the previous value. Oracle no longer applies their core factor against core usage within these environments. The policy had previously applied to all processor based licenses, where as the new […]

Oracle Support Contracts Now Auto-Renew During the late summer and early fall of 2017, Oracle made a significant addition to the Oracle Support policies but was largely silent on this change. While there are references to Online Renewal within Oracle’s websites, the most impactful change concerned auto-renew. Automatically renewing Oracle Support Contracts, designed to make it easier for Clients, has become the default method. Instead of receiving the Support Contract and thereby offering the customer the chance to review it, […]