Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Tactical Law Group’s Pam Fulmer does the non-attorneys among us who work in the Oracle licensing industry a favor by keeping us abreast of legal cases that interest Oracle users. This is handy…
Jeff Klemme, Principal Architect & David Woodard, Principal Architect
There are two different builds of the Java Development Kit. Both are owned by Oracle, but one (OpenJDK) is licensed using an open-source model and the other (Oracle JDK or Oracle…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Overview
Oracle licensing is a very complex topic. To further complicate things, different metrics have been used to license core technology products (Database and Middleware) throughout the years. The most common metrics currently in use are…
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.
Did anyone honestly think anything was going to change? Did anyone honestly think…
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…
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