by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
In a recent blog post, I focused on initial Oracle deployments and the variety of decisions that come with implementing Oracle for the first time. For this article, I plan to offer a deeper…
David Woodard, Principal Architect
If you have regularly followed our blogs in the past, you will no doubt have read Nathan Biggs’ blog about the pending class-action lawsuit against Oracle Corporation. In that blog, Nathan notes that one of the…
David Woodard, Principal Architect
Standard Edition 2 Can be a Great Value
Oracle database Standard Edition 2 (SE2), as well as past editions Standard Edition and Standard Edition 1, can be a great value and cost significantly less than Oracle Enterprise…
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
Given the current economic climate, many organizations are identifying cost cutting options. The fees for Oracle licensing and support are usually some of the largest costs in an organization’s IT budget.
However, there are a…
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
The theme of this blog is, “it’s complicated”. PowerVM is not necessarily complicated to the point where it is difficult to understand, but is complicated compared to other hypervisors when it comes to Oracle licensing. PowerVM…
Michael Bradburn, Lead Senior Technical Solutions Architect [Guest Blog]
This is a guest blog post written by Michael Bradburn*, a Lead Senior Technical Solutions Architect with Cisco. However, as Michael states at the end of this article, the opinions expressed…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Here are eight arguments for the probability that the Mars v. Oracle kerfuffle turned out entirely in Mars’ favor.
Oracle advanced its assertions, which lacked contractual merit, privately one prospect and customer at…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
The use of the Oracle’s database option Spatial and Graph has long been a thorn in our side when it comes to refuting Oracle audit findings. Based on what we are now seeing from Oracle, we…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
See:
My 12/15/17 blog post The Sound of Silence: Celebrating the Two Year Anniversary of the Dismissal of Mars v. Oracle.
My 12/16/18 blog post The Sound of Silence: Celebrating the Three…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Update – July 26, 2019:
VMware KB 51491 originally published vSphere 5.5 Extended Support as available for one year only, through September 19, 2019. VMware Corporation has affirmed to us that since our original…
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