Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
Over the past few years, House of Brick has had the privilege of working with hundreds of clients around the world to help them get a handle on their Oracle and SQL Server licensing challenges. While…
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist House of Brick Technologies & Pam Fulmer, Partner and Co-founder, Fulmer Ware LLP
Fulmer Ware LLP and House of Brick work together frequently to defend customers when they are facing software audits from Oracle…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Recently I wrote a blog about AWS’ newly unveiled Optimize CPUs for Amazon EC2 Instances feature. While a very welcome feature, it was disappointing that the feature was only initially available for EC2 but not RDS….
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
When it comes to messaging coming from the Oracle sales team on how to properly license their software, the misleading information is nothing if not predictable. With a hat tip to the Britney Spears album of…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
A Former Professional Life
The Product Integration Group was established at a former employer by a visionary president. He understood the need for something that went beyond functional quality assurance—a team that proved and…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
In November of 2016, I wrote a blog post that followed the announcement by VMware and Amazon about the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS). The subtitle of that blog was “VMware and AWS Announcement…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Oracle Spatial and Graph is a product that allows for the storage and processing of geospatial objects inside of the database. From the Oracle Technology Global Pricing List, “Oracle Spatial is an integrated set of…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
Accidental or unintentional use of the extra-cost options and management packs for Oracle Database poses a significant risk to anyone utilizing Oracle software. All of the options and management packs are simply a part…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
When I was a kid I watched a lot of cartoons. This was before YouTube and social media, so that’s just what we did. One of the cartoons that I watched was the Rocky and Bullwinkle…
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Currently, the most common licensing metrics for purchases of core technology products are the following:
Processor – Per-core licensing based on a platform dependent core factor
Named User Plus (NUP) – Based on the number of…
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