by Nick Walter | Oct 13, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle Licensing, Uncategorized
by Nick Walter, Principal Architect and Joe Grant, Principal Architect At House of Brick we field a multitude of questions from our partners and clients about Oracle licensing pitfalls and traps. In some recent conversations a new wrinkle on an old danger, Proprietary... 
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 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... 
by Nick Walter | Jun 29, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist and Nick Walter, Principal Architect On June 14, 2020, Oracle published Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support on Third-Party Clouds–An Overview and Clarification. It attempts to list reasons why Oracle doesn’t...