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 Bob Lindquist | Jun 10, 2021 | Cloud, Licensing, News, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, Uncategorized
The House of Brick Partner Podcast The House of Brick Partner Podcast is a series of conversations with important partners and clients. The intent of the podcast is to share, educate and advise listeners on best practices for business-critical database platforms.... 
by Bob Lindquist | May 11, 2021 | AWS, Cloud, Licensing, News, OpsCompass, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, Uncategorized
Written by: Mike Stone, Principal Architect; Joe Grant, Principal Architect; Bob Lindquist, Client Solutions Director House of Brick consultants have helped many clients assess Oracle engineered systems, like the Oracle Database Appliance and Exadata platforms,... 
by Bob Lindquist | Oct 27, 2020 | Licensing, OpsCompass, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
This is Part 2 of a two-part blog covering Oracle licensing tools and best practices. As noted previously in our Part 1 post, Oracle sales behaviors with customers have been arduous, even though Oracle still provides enterprise-grade technologies.... by Bob Lindquist | Oct 20, 2020 | Licensing, OpsCompass, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
This is Part 1 of a two-part blog covering Oracle licensing tools and best practices. Oracle produces a number of very good enterprise technologies, particularly their Database and related Technology stack of products. Companies of all sizes have been running their... 
by Joe Grant | Aug 21, 2020 | Licensing, Oracle Licensing
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect Tax Day 2019 was not only a day when Americans had to pay their taxes, but it was also the day that Oracle started charging a Java tax – no longer was Java free for commercial use. So, starting on April 15, 2019 any...