by Mohammad Inamullah | Jun 22, 2021 | OCI, Oracle Cloud
In the coming weeks and months, I’ll be posting a series of articles on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The “Gen 2” OCI is Oracle’s definitive platform for key IaaS and PaaS services around compute, database, storage and other key...
by Mohammad Inamullah | May 21, 2021 | Audit Defense, Compliance, General, Virtualization
In a word: Yes. Oracle’s “Processor” definition requires customers to license all cores on all processors where Oracle programs are “installed and/or running“. The “running” part is easy to understand. The...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Apr 29, 2021 | General
Is Oracle’s “Processor” license definition technically flawed? If yes, then what are the implications for license calculations, and the infamous “installed and/or running” language? How would this impact licensing on systems where Oracle...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Apr 15, 2021 | General
In the third installment, we will cover two articles I wrote for the NoCOUG Journal. In the first article, we do a deep-dive into Oracle’s licensing policy on licensing in third party cloud environments. We discuss the “Approved” and not-approved...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Mar 24, 2021 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, Compliance, GCP, ULA
We continue our journey through the Oracle licensing articles I wrote for the quarterly journal of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG). In this installment, we discuss Oracle’s policy on licensing its on-premise software in third-party cloud...
