Oracle, in its latest version of their flagship database product, has come up with only two editions: Oracle Database Enterprise Edition; and Oracle Standard Edition 2 (Oracle SE2). So what…

Answer a YES or a NO to each of the questions below. Have you undergone a hardware consolidation or infrastructure modernisation in the last 18 months? Are you using virtualisation…

Similarities between Oracle and IBM CPU-based licensing By Sharon Trembley, Miro Consulting Blogs (link to original post at the end of this article, posted here through WordPress share) IBM earnings…

Oracle has a list of approved cloud vendors that they call Authorized Cloud Environments. These are: Amazon Web Services – Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)…

The question of needing to license Oracle’s technology products on a failover server comes up very often. Customers are interested in knowing whether they absolutely need to pay for Oracle…

Virtualization is the process of creating one or more software-based servers on a single physical host. The benefits of Virtualization (increased IT agility, flexibility and scalability) have made it very…

This may be the shortest guide to Oracle licensing policy for Oracle Database and other technology products (eg Weblogic and other middleware products). You may treat this as an introduction…