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Author: Bart Sjerps

Webcast: How to save on Oracle licensing fees by replatforming on Dell EMC

Bart Sjerps 2017-01-20 General, Oracle No Comments

On Jan 24th, I will host a webcast on Oracle cost optimization via database replatforming. Database license fees drive over 80% of total system cost. Many organizations virtualize their applications, but Oracle is often an exception for a variety of…

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Legal case – Oracle vs customer

Bart Sjerps 2016-07-27 Oracle, Virtualization No Comments

Another example of Oracle apparently ignoring all business ethics and charging a customer €300,000.- for an environment where common sense leads to a more reasonable license fee of €4,000.- I always wonder why customers (even very large and powerful ones)…

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Straight Talk on Oracle on VMware licensing

Bart Sjerps 2016-04-26 Oracle, Virtualization No Comments

Last year on march 19, 2015, Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) hosted a webcast covering the licensing part of running Oracle on VMware. As DBTA archives old webcasts after one year, I asked for permission to re-publish because I think…

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Oracle LMS response to licensing on VMware

Bart Sjerps 2016-03-21 Oracle, Virtualization 5 Comments

Last week I was in London to attend the UK Oracle User Group licensing event. After a number of sessions with excellent material leading to very interesting discussions (one was showing – with permission – some of my own content,…

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Oracle on VMware: Caging the license dragon

Bart Sjerps 2016-03-03 Oracle, Virtualization 12 Comments

Virtualizing databases has huge financial and operational benefits – in particular with Oracle, where physically deployed database servers are typically heavily under-utilized which leads to huge over-spending on license cost. Of course poor efficiency on database servers leads to higher…

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