Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
With Oracle’s end of fiscal year rapidly approaching, many organizations are finding themselves mired in an audit. If you are one of these “lucky” targets of Oracle’s attention, you have likely learned that an audit from…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
It has been our privilege over the past few months to work with the great people at Skytap. Skytap is a VMware ESXi-based public cloud. In addition to some very innovative capabilities around the management of…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
Oracle introduced its Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment policy document in 2010. The most recent change on January 23, 2017 comes with a handful of substantial negatives for licensees’ budgets….
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
Layman means I’m not an attorney.
Anyone who saw my quote in Nick Budnick’s excellent Portland Tribune piece on the September 15, 2016 CoverOregon settlement would know I’m concerned. I said, “Oracle made out…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
House of Brick Technologies routinely deals with our customers’ opportunities regarding Oracle licensing. Occasionally, a little known licensing metric called Universal Power Units (UPU) rears its ugly head. The reason there is little known about…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
A frequent question that we receive from customers is “do I have to license the DR site?” As with most things in IT, the answer is “it depends.” It depends on how DR is…
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect
On March 10, 2016 Microsoft held a #DataDriven event touting all the really cool and neat features of SQL Server 2016. One of the topics covered was that Microsoft is going to be giving away…
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant
In part 1, I introduced a story that illustrates the impact of internal dynamics on Oracle performance and licensing costs. I described how various actors, and the perspectives they bring from their specific role in the…
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant
House of Brick consultants have a unique perspective into organizational cultures, their Oracle database environments, and the impact this has on the ability to emerge from an Oracle audit unscathed or wounded.
We understand the competing demands…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
House of Brick has become the industry’s lightning rod on the topic of licensing Oracle technology running on VMware. As a compliment to our contract instruction over the years, we have pointed out…
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