by RedwoodCompliance | Apr 15, 2016 | Audit Defense, ULA
Ask any Oracle ULA customer, and they will tell you how much Oracle wants them to renew their ULAs. Letting a ULA expire and certifying is not in Oracle’s best interests – whether or not the customer wants to. As such, Oracle will often apply negotiation...
by RedwoodCompliance | Apr 1, 2016 | General
In a word, Yes. Allow us to elaborate. Suppose you purchase a set of Oracle licenses from your friendly Oracle sales rep. Is it possible that the licenses you purchased would put you out of compliance immediately? YES. Consider the following example scenarios: You...
by RedwoodCompliance | Mar 16, 2016 | General
Anytime a business goes through a merger/acquisition or divestiture, managing the inventory of Oracle licenses carefully is important. Failure to do so can lead to compliance and financial exposures, as well as missed opportunities for optimizing the investment in...
by RedwoodCompliance | Feb 18, 2016 | Compliance, ULA
As the name suggests, Oracle’s Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) is designed to give customers a flexible and affordable way of deploying Oracle software without having to worry about monitoring their license usage. Indeed, if properly and carefully considered...
by RedwoodCompliance | Feb 1, 2016 | Virtualization
Oracle licensing is complicated enough as it is. Extending Oracle’s metric definitions to the world of partitioning takes the complexity to another level. Unlike other vendors, Oracle does not have separate licensing or metrics for partitioned or virtualized...
