The Oracle License Police and Beer
summary
Advice about beating aggressive Oracle licensing audits with concrete moves not slogans: insist on get written legally binding confirmation that any monitoring tool is accurate before running it; beware license set bundling that cancels discounts when you retire old products; expect a ~15% fee on legal-entity transfers and possible 150% backdated support charge if support lapses; move unused perpetual licenses to a partner hosting license and use partner hosting license run at customer site; cite a national-level decree to force transfers — one audit once claimed ~€400bn and the national buyer simply refused.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:31Oracle license audits
- 7:17Legal safeguards
- 9:27License bundling tricks
- 12:17Perpetual licenses hosting
- 15:37National IT loopholes
- 19:40Government tactics
- 22:33Term vs perpetual licenses
- 23:35Whiskey submarine story
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