Re: Another License Review

Well, if we are talking about canned applications, SAP R3 works on all mentioned databases. Development tools like DBeaver and SQL Squirrel are also pretty good. Eclipse has lots of modules, too. Solarwinds can monitor all of them. So can Nagios or Zabbix. The question is a bit too broad. The client should be looking for the applications of interest only.

On 11/01/2017 05:39 PM, ora_kclosson_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> What sort of app did that customer have that gives them the freedom to
> think about a different RDBMS? Surely no Oracle "4GLs" (Forms, APEX,
> etc). Is it all Java with ORM like Hibernate?
>
> On Nov 1, 2017 1:15 PM, Dave Herring <gdherri_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto:gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Audits are back, for some time now:
>
> http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/oracle-plays-hardball/
> <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
>
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
> Tel:(347) 321-1217 <tel:%28347%29%20321-1217>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dave
>
>

-- 
Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Tel: (347) 321-1217


--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l