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... 
by Nick Walter | Jun 29, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist and Nick Walter, Principal Architect On June 14, 2020, Oracle published Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support on Third-Party Clouds–An Overview and Clarification. It attempts to list reasons why Oracle doesn’t... 
by Joe Grant | 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...