Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Today at Oracle Open World, Larry Ellison announced what a simulcast VMware blog calls Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS). I’m thinking Larry announced OVM’s deprecation. But we’ll get to that later. Here’s what…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Firefighter’s Retirement System of St. Louis sued Oracle executives and Oracle’s board on May 8, 2017 over allegations of conflicted and self-serving actions, in causing Oracle Corporation to pay an inflated price for…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
DBAs often ask me about the different layers involved when presenting storage to Oracle ASM on VMware. In the image below, we have diagrammed all the layers involved in presenting storage to ASM. Starting from…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
In Oracle Database version 11g, a new feature called Active Data Guard (ADG) was introduced. This feature extends traditional Data Guard by allowing the standby database to continue to apply redo while remaining open for…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
This blog post is the latest in a series of articles that House of Brick is providing, which use quotes and information from recently filed lawsuits against Oracle to uncover the truth about their treatment (or…
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle, was recently interviewed for an article, All of Our Customers Will Move to the Cloud. In this interview, Mark Hurd suggests that all of Oracle’s on-premises customers will be soon…
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO
Although I’m an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect, one has to admit that AWS has an almost overwhelming number of options and a security infrastructure with nearly infinite possibilities. This kind…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
The end of the fiscal year for Oracle is always a crazy time, both for Oracle customers and employees. It can also be a little crazy for Oracle licensing and infrastructure consultants. I thought I would…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan ), Principal Architect
Updated: March 29, 2019
Is this blog post we will take a look at general Oracle database licensing and how the Oracle database tracks feature usage. This can be helpful in preparing for a LMS…
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…
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