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Oracle Database Playbook

The Oracle Database Licensing Optimization Playbook

How to cut Oracle Database spend without losing functionality. Edition right sizing, option pruning, virtualization rules, third party support, and the negotiation moves that compress 30 percent off support.

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Read Time 20 Minutes
Last Updated May 2026
What you will take away
  • Edition right sizing across SE2, EE, and the option packs
  • What Oracle Cloud at Customer changes about hardware partitioning
  • How to harvest unused options and management packs without breaking apps
  • When third party support is the right call and when it is not
  • The 5 levers that compress Oracle Database support cost over 3 years
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Written byFredrik FilipssonCo Founder & Group CEO · ex Oracle, IBM, SAP
PublishedJanuary 27, 2023
Last updatedFebruary 6, 2023
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