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.

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 ...

Oraclelicensing is complex, elaborate and has a lot of “fine print” to it. With Oracle’s never ending acquisition of technology vendors, it is often challenging for an Oracle licensing analyst or CIO ...

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 ...

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology.… However, experts have pointed out ...

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 ...

Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

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 ...

Oracle 12C release 12.1.0.2 includes in-memory database functionality on by default, but to use it businesses have to pay extra. According to Oracle's price list, the in-memory option costs $23,000 ...

Virtualisation sets a number of software-licensing traps for the unwary, but they can largely be avoided through some sensible precautions, says Manek Dubash. IBM was embarrassed after it launched its ...