by Dave Welch | Jun 11, 2021 | General, Licensing, News, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, VMware, VMware Cloud, VMworld, vSphere
Oracle Support for RAC on VMware – MOS Note 249212.1’s April 29, 2021 Revision and VMware’s June 9, 2021 Reaction. Prior to November 8, 2010, Oracle’s RAC FAQ stated: “There are technical restrictions that prohibit the support of RAC in a VMware environment.” In our... 
by Dave Welch | Mar 23, 2021 | Oracle, Oracle Licensing, Uncategorized
Judge Beth Labson Freeman held an October 17, 2019 hearing over the City of Sunrise Florida Firefighters Pension Fund class action lawsuit v.2. There wasn’t a lot about Judge Beth Labson Freeman’s December 17, 2019 order to dismiss that I found encouraging for... 
by Dave Welch | Dec 16, 2020 | Oracle Licensing
December 16, 2020. Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Executive License Consultant, Chief Evangelist I have two anniversaries that I celebrate annually back-to-back: December 16th & 17th. Don’t tell my wife I actually wondered aloud in a client licensing workshop today which... 
by Dave Welch | Nov 20, 2020 | Uncategorized, VMware, VMware Cloud, VMworld
Many organizations have discovered that they overshot in their migrations to the cloud by not enabling a hybrid cloud model. It was my privilege to moderate the Bright Talk hybrid cloud session at VMworld 2019 U.S. The webcast is more relevant now than ever. Central... 
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...