by hobadmin | 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... 
by hobadmin | 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 hobadmin | 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 hobadmin | 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... 
by hobadmin | Aug 3, 2020 | Dave Welch, Oracle Licensing, SQL Server, VMworld
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Hello everyone. Allan Hirt from SQLHA (Blog | Twitter) and I will be co-presenting session HCP1634 “Licensing Oracle and SQL Server on vSphere” at VMworld 2020 this September. I will be focusing on Oracle while Allan will be... 
by hobadmin | Jun 19, 2020 | Oracle, Oracle Licensing
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect In a recent blog post, I focused on initial Oracle deployments and the variety of decisions that come with implementing Oracle for the first time. For this article, I plan to offer a deeper dive on one of those decisions...