by Nick Walter | Sep 24, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Oracle Licensing
Licensing Oracle RAC on AWS is tricky, because Oracle wants to deter people from running it in any cloud environment but their own. While they have not outright forbade support for RAC on AWS, they have made some public statements to attempt to discourage users from... 
by Dave Welch | Sep 14, 2020 | Dave Welch, General, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist We were informed by an Oracle partner that Oracle sent out an announcement September 1, 2020 deprecating the option to purchase licenses with two, three, four, and five year terms. Furthermore, the one-year term option has now... 
by Nick Walter | Sep 3, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle Licensing
by Nick Walter, Principal Architect At House of Brick we are constantly hearing from our customers, and peers in the industry, about the latest tactics Oracle is using to try lock clients into expensive licensing deals. The latest tale to reach our ears is that Oracle...