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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement

CIO Business Intelligence

Have you ever met an Oracle customer who happily pays the company’s fees for software support? But too few really understand how beneficial—and painless—breaking up with Oracle Database support can be. Ready to make a seamless exit from Oracle? Neither have we. When was your last database health check?

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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Flaws in Oracle file processing SDKs affect major third-party products

Network World

Seventeen high-risk vulnerabilities out of the 276 flaws fixed by Oracle Tuesday affect products from third-party software vendors, including Microsoft. These SDKs, which are part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware, are licensed to other software developers who then use them in their own products.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

In space, no-one can cancel your software license NASA is a scientific marvel that does all sorts of cool and inspiring space stuff; it’s also a sprawling government bureaucracy with thousands of employees and computer systems under its umbrella.

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How to maximize ROI by choosing the right Java partner for your organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Its versatility, reliability, stability, and open-source and third-party libraries and frameworks make developing and running applications very efficient. In January 2023, Oracle changed its licensing and/or pricing for Java for the fourth time in four years.

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Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model

GeekWire

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. Elastic published a long post announcing that it is changing its software license, so that AWS cannot use its software anymore.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. License Includedâ??