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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. 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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Unlocking value: Oracle enterprise license models for optimal ROI

CIO Business Intelligence

With tight IT budgets getting tighter, many Oracle licensees with Unlimited Licensing Agreements (ULAs) are tempted to consider an exit plan to avoid the pinch of rising support costs. But, often too late, they may discover that their Oracle contract could prevent them from making the jump as seamlessly as they’d like.

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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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Oracle Corporation: Addressing enterprise IT infrastructure

CTOvision

Oracle ( NYSE:ORCL ) is one of the most widely known Tech Titans , and at a $169B market cap has plenty on hand to continue innovating and acquiring new capabilities. The Company's businesses include cloud and on-premise software, hardware and services. Oracle Buying NetSuite for $9.3 Bob Gourley. They will be around.

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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. Oracle’s user base grows. Oracle did have results to brag about, in terms of growing its cloud user base. billion.

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How an Oracle win over Google could set the software industry back to the licensing age

Tech Republic Cloud

Oracle thinks it wants to squeeze Google for Java copyright infringement, but it shouldn't. The future of software is about APIs and the cloud, not licensing.

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Russia Weighs Replacing IBM, Microsoft With Open-Source Software

Data Center Knowledge

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