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Oracle Java 17 Is No Longer Free: What You Need to Know

In September of 2021 Oracle released their distribution of Java 17 under the No Fee Terms and Conditions (NFTC) license. This was most likely a response to the severe backlash from their April 2019 decision to start charging for Java licenses. Under this NFTC license Oracle Java was seemingly magically free again, although there were many Terms and Conditions that still needed to be adhered to. One of the conditions of note was that one

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Is My Oracle Database Supported?

One thing our team hears frequently from customers is a variation on “I have to upgrade so that my database will be supported.” This statement

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AWS RDS SQL Index Maintenance

As DBAs we are constantly adapting to recent technologies. We are seeing an increase in organizations migrating to the cloud. However, there are some fundamentals

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Broadcom to Acquire VMware

Broadcom today confirmed the rumors of a few days ago that it was in acquisition talks with VMware. My reaction: anybody but Oracle. Before I

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