CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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. We were founded on the radical idea that you—not software vendors or resource constraints—should be in charge of your IT.

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Oracle Licensing Database Administration Open Source 124

Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Duma is drafting a bill to restrict government agencies from buying licensed software, giving preference to open-source software. Read More.

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Open Source Software Software IBM 259

Gizmodo

JANUARY 13, 2022

For years, developers of free, open-source software have been telling anyone who will listen that their projects needs better financial assistance and more oversight. Now, after a number of disastrous incidents involving open-source code, the federal government and Silicon Valley may finally be listening.

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Open Source Software Software Security 95

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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Open Source Licensing Software Software 103

CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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Open Source IBM Oracle Government 150

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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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Oracle How To Licensing Operating Systems 52

Flexagon

JUNE 30, 2023

The software is showing its age as businesses move toward more agile processes and DevOps. The process requires buying new licenses, migrating data, and training employees to use the new edition. Software evolves to improve how people work, but staying put on an older version deprives users of these improvements.

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Enterprise Enterprise Devops Oracle 78