What you will be able to do after this session

• 1Choose the path. Match each reduction candidate to the right one of five paths.
• 2Price the risks. Know each path's real risk profile, including the ones Oracle will emphasize.
• 3Judge unsupported. Understand running perpetual licenses without support, and the near one way door behind it.
• 4Build the case. Assemble a reduction business case that survives repricing arithmetic and executive scrutiny.
• 5Execute cleanly. Run notices, timing, and the inevitable retention counter without losing the plot.

How the session works

A taught session with three knowledge checks: the ghost set and the mixed set assigned to their different paths, the reinstatement mathematics priced two years after dropping support, and the 35 percent retention counter compared against the alternative it was built on. It closes with the $1.2M bill from session 16 landing at $805K after one program year.

Homework before the next session, about one hour

• 1Path your findings. Every line from the baseline audit assigned to one of the five paths, or to keep as is.
• 2Model one restructure. Your worst mixed set: price the right sized repurchase against the current stream.
• 3Test one unsupported candidate. Write the return scenario, price it at reinstatement rates, see if the path survives.
• 4Draft one notice. A termination notice for your cleanest candidate, written to the policies' requirements.
• 5List the leverage. Every renewal date and pending purchase in the next year, where counters can be provoked and banked.