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 House of Brick Guest | Oct 2, 2020 | Cloud, Oracle Licensing
Pam Fulmer, Partner, Tactical Law Group This is a guest blog post written by Pam Fulmer, a partner at Tactical Law Group LLP based in San Francisco. House of Brick has partnered with Pam and her firm many times to help customers with the sometimes difficult task of... 
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 Bob Lindquist | Aug 26, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Bob Lindquist, Client Services Director and Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect The Journey of Oracle & Google Cloud House of Brick has worked with Google for many years, advising on the best ways to run Oracle workloads in Google Cloud. We... 
by Bob Lindquist | Aug 18, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services Oracle customers have common questions about their licensing options when considering deployment to Amazon Web Services (AWS). These questions usually fall into the following areas: What AWS options are available for Oracle...