by Mohammad Inamullah | Mar 24, 2021 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, Compliance, GCP, ULA
We continue our journey through the Oracle licensing articles I wrote for the quarterly journal of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG). In this installment, we discuss Oracle’s policy on licensing its on-premise software in third-party cloud...
by RedwoodCompliance | Mar 14, 2017 | Cloud, Compliance, Optimization, ULA
With the inevitability and benefits of cloud computing clear, companies are charting their respective courses from on-premise to the cloud. One key consideration is how to get the best value out of existing software licenses and deploying them in the cloud. For an...
by RedwoodCompliance | Feb 5, 2017 | Compliance, General, ULA
Any company with an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) will sooner or later be faced with the following key questions, among others: How much value was gotten out of the ULA? How much value is being left on the table? What compliance risks is the company...
by RedwoodCompliance | May 6, 2016 | ULA
In short – No … or at least do your best to find an alternative to running Oracle’s scripts. That’s because Oracle’s scripts extract way more information than you think – and will put you at compliance risk. Let us elaborate…...
by RedwoodCompliance | Apr 15, 2016 | Audit Defense, ULA
Ask any Oracle ULA customer, and they will tell you how much Oracle wants them to renew their ULAs. Letting a ULA expire and certifying is not in Oracle’s best interests – whether or not the customer wants to. As such, Oracle will often apply negotiation...
by RedwoodCompliance | Feb 18, 2016 | Compliance, ULA
As the name suggests, Oracle’s Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) is designed to give customers a flexible and affordable way of deploying Oracle software without having to worry about monitoring their license usage. Indeed, if properly and carefully considered...
