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 ...

Oracle Corp. has altered its cloud licensing policy in a way that means anyone running its software on Amazon Web Services could be charged double what they were paying before. News of the new policy ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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BEDFORD, MA--(Marketwired - Dec 1, 2015) - EnterpriseDB® (EDB™), the leading provider of enterprise-class Postgres products and database compatibility solutions, today announced a special program for ...

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 ...

Oracle plans to start a series of seminars on its pricing and licensing practices later this year in an expanded effort to clear up confusion about the topic among users, an Oracle executive said ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle’s aggressive licensing practices have gained it considerable notoriety over the years, and on Tuesday, a Texas law firm specializing in technology issued a warning urging enterprises to beware.