It appears Oracle’s cloud FUD chickens are coming home to roost.
The US based specialist securities prosecutor BLB&G has filed a class action lawsuit against Oracle on behalf of the City of Sunrise Firefighters Pension Fund.
In a statement, the class action states that Oracle...
Oracle Database 18c was introduced in late 2017 by Larry Ellison, Oracle’s executive chairman and CTO, as ‘a big thing’.
Also called the “Oracle Autonomous Database”, Oracle Database 18c automates security, provisioning and error handling. Oracle calls it “self-driving”...
Oracle Corporation have long been famous for their database software, and their often tricky, sometimes flummoxing, usually expensive, licensing rules – and the audits that go with them.
IT Asset Managers worldwide have struggled, often through no fault of their own, to understand...
Approximately 10 years ago, Oracle Corporation started to sell a type of agreement known as the “Unlimited License Agreement” (ULA). An Unlimited License Agreement provides an organisation the right to unlimited deployments of a certain range of Oracle programs, for a limited...
Aspera are offering a financial “guarantee” for purchasers of their Oracle SAM Managed Service.
“For customers that use a combination of LicenseControl for Oracle plus our Managed Services, Aspera is able to take financial responsibility for any difference in results...
Oracle have announced that, “after January 2019”, Java SE 8 public updates will not be available for “business, commercial or production use” without a commercial license.
Organisations will now need to take stock of all their software running Java SE 8 and start to work...
We’re pleased to announce that our LISA training platform has a new addition – Oracle licensing training.
In conjunction with long-time ITAM Review collaborator – and internationally renowned Oracle consultant – Richard Spithoven of B-Lay, our bite-sized, self-paced Oracle...
In early 2017, Oracle issued a policy statement dedicated to helping customers better understand how to license Oracle products when the customers access the products via Amazon’s or Microsoft’s cloud services.
Increasingly, companies are considering outsourcing datacenter workloads...
In this video, Richard Spithoven of b.lay explains what audit trends he is seeing in the market from Oracle, the most common compliance issues, Oracle’s licensing policies around VM Ware and Java.
Richard will be speaking at both our UK and USA conferences on day two covering...
An independent verification for Oracle license management
Back in April last year we published a comparison of five SAM tools with Oracle License Management capabilities (See: Oracle License Management Group Test – The Results).
This previous group test above was based on a...