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 Dave Welch | Aug 3, 2020 | Dave Welch, Oracle Licensing, SQL Server, VMworld
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Hello everyone. Allan Hirt from SQLHA (Blog | Twitter) and I will be co-presenting session HCP1634 “Licensing Oracle and SQL Server on vSphere” at VMworld 2020 this September. I will be focusing on Oracle while Allan will be... 
by Dave Welch | Jul 29, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dave Welch
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist It’s at once both a relief and unsettling to tell your professional services client, “We’re sorry. But we’re feeling the need to hijack this engagement. You have no backup. Yes, we understand ops is going through the motions.... 
by Dave Welch | Jul 13, 2020 | Dave Welch, Oracle, VMware
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Part III: The HA Feat RAC Will Never Pull Off Real Application Clusters had always been the high availability king. It surprises me that after 15 years since the ground-breaking VMware Fault Tolerance was introduced, I encounter...