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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Part 1
Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues to evolve as new services and capabilities are added. We've assisted many of our clients navigate their move to various cloud platforms. For several of my Oracle-heavy clients, OCI has turned out to be a natural choice. I...
Series on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
In the coming weeks and months, I'll be posting a series of articles on Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The "Gen 2" OCI is Oracle's definitive platform for key IaaS and PaaS services around compute, database, storage and other key infrastructure services. We will...
Is Oracle’s “Processor” licensing definition technically flawed?
In a word: Yes. Oracle's "Processor" definition requires customers to license all cores on all processors where Oracle programs are "installed and/or running". The "running" part is easy to understand. The "installed" part isn't. After all, who has ever heard of a...
Oracle Cloud Licensing – NoCOUG Journal – Part V, VI
Is Oracle's "Processor" license definition technically flawed? If yes, then what are the implications for license calculations, and the infamous "installed and/or running" language? How would this impact licensing on systems where Oracle software is not actually...
Oracle Cloud Licensing – NoCOUG Journal – Part III, IV
In the third installment, we will cover two articles I wrote for the NoCOUG Journal. In the first article, we do a deep-dive into Oracle's licensing policy on licensing in third party cloud environments. We discuss the "Approved" and not-approved cloud vendors, Oracle...
Oracle Cloud Licensing – NoCOUG Journal – Part II
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...