Re: Another License Review

I'm now finally involved with a client who has gone down this road and Oracle lost the discussion. Of course legally I can neither confirm nor deny how many millions were involved in the ULA that was cancelled along with neither confirming nor denying any outright effort to move to a different vendor. :-)

Dave

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Audits are back, for some time now:
>
> http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/oracle-plays-hardball/
>
> The best way to stop that practice is to change the DB vendor.
> Fortunately, there are 3 large competitors to Oracle Corp: Microsoft, IBM
> and SAP. Oracle will stop doing that when they lose sufficient number of
> customers. It's called "market economy". Technological gap between Oracle
> and their competitors has shrunk significantly. SQL Server 2016 and DB2
> 11.1 are excellent databases which can do almost anything that Oracle can
> do. DB2 can even execute PL/SQL natively. I am not so sure about SAP Hana,
> but there is an increasing number of adopters. One way of avoiding vendor
> lock-in is using Java-based MVC frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. I
> would avoid applications written specifically for Oracle and always
> consider database neutral alternatives, should they exist.
>
> Regards
>
> On 11/01/2017 01:17 PM, Chris Taylor wrote:
>
> I think I read a few months (a year?) that Oracle had stepped up its
> license reviews as a way to generate revenue.
>
> I'll have to see if I can find it again.
>
> Chris
>
>
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> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
> Tel: (347) 321-1217
>
>

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Dave

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