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 Dave Welch | 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 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 Jeff Stonacek | Aug 12, 2020 | Oracle
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect For years, I worked in a Unix/Linux command line on a daily basis. Lately however, my work is more strategic than operational, so I work at a command prompt on a less frequent basis. While I am still hands on keyboard, at my age,... 
by Dave Welch | Jul 13, 2020 | Dave Welch, Oracle, VMware
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Part III: The HA Feat RAC Will Never Pull Off Real Application Clusters had always been the high availability king. It surprises me that after 15 years since the ground-breaking VMware Fault Tolerance was introduced, I encounter...