In the last week, two reports about Oracle licensing have caught the eye. Both are aimed at the same thing: a mild pitch at negotiation in the run up to Oracle's financial year end. One from Forrester ...

A $100K investment in server and storage improvements can save about $2M off the three-year total cost of a large Oracle deployment, writes David Vellante in the latest in a Wikibon series on Oracle ...

Energy company Santos says it expects to pay upwards of AU$830,000 in licensing fees to Oracle next year due to a complex licensing model it can't easily exit. The Australian-owned oil and gas ...

A consultant offered advice Tuesday regarding how Oracle customers can get the best deal and protect themselves while licensing software from the enterprise software giant. Oracle’s licensing ...

On Monday, Gartner Group told its corporate clients to double-check Oracle software-licensing fees to ensure that the company has not "inappropriately imposed extra" charges on their database use.

As of July 8, each core of new multi-core AMD or Intel processors will be licensed as if it were 75 percent of a CPU. CRN broke the news of the change on Wednesday. Oracle pricing and licensing guru ...

Oracle's "new" delivery options have been preceded by several packaging iterations since Oracle BusinessOnline was introduced in 1998. This offering has taken many turns, and the question inevitably ...

One of the key tasks in Mergers & Acquisitions is coming up with an accurate view of all of the assets and liabilities of a target company. Depending on the size of the transaction, Oracle license ...

It’s no secret that Oracle’s aggressive licensing tactics can be a source of considerable pain for its customers, and that’s just where TmaxSoft is betting it has an edge. Not only does the company ...

Oracle’s licensing practices have created a “hostile” relationship “filled with deep rooted mistrust” between the vendor and its customers, according to a survey that looked at users’ business ...