Oracle Licensing Basic Concepts, Right to upgrade to later versions, and License Upgrades

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00:00 What is the difference in licensing Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and Oracle Database Standard Edition?
00:20 Oracle does not allow you to license vCPU unless that technology is approved by Oracle
00:35 Oracle Database Enterprise Edition is licensed by counting physical cores, Standard Edition licensing is based on number of CPU sockets occupied.
01:02 Can you upgrade your Oracle Database version with your license? Or do you need to purchase a new license? Fredrik explains as long as you have active support you have the right to update to any version.
01:40 Fredrik talks about how you can upgrade/migrate from Standard Edition license to Enterprise Edition. You can then use the investment you made in the standard edition license towards the cost of an Enterprise Edition license.
02:05 Can you downgrade from Enterprise to Standard Edition database (migrate down)



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How Oracle changed their new ULA contracts deployment rights in Public Cloud such as AWS and Azure

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00:00 A viewer asks if Oracle has changed its contract language in ULAs to allow customers to take advantage of public cloud.
00:25 Paul says he has seen a change in Oracle ULA contract (newly signed) Paul has seen many different versions of how to certify ULA when deploying in Public Cloud. Paul confirms that there a new contract language that is better than the old
01:00 Fredrik says this only applies for new ULAs not for older ULAs that does not have the right to deploy in public cloud.
01:15 Kris Wong says Oracle is un-necessarily making its difficult for its customers.
02:05 Sheshagiri has seen this new contractual right in Perpetual ULAs.
02:55 Morten had seen this in both TERM ULAs and Perpetual ULAs

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Do not co-operate when Oracle Sales reps asks you to share licensing deployment documentation

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00:00 Fredrik do Oracle customers need to co-operate when Oracle Account Reps asks for licensing deployment data from one of its customers?
00:20 Kris Wong explains that a "soft audit" is and explains that you are better not co-operating with this. This is a "fishing expedition" by sales.
01:20 Sheshagiri who worked at Oracle sales and his opinion is that 80% of Oracle license sales revenue is coming from non-compliance identificaitons.
02:00 Sheshagiri shares an anecdote for how a "soft-audit" can start and you should try to avoid sharing information with your Account team.
02:45 Sheshagiri explains how he at Oracle put pressure at customer CIOs to resolve non compliance found by his Oracle customers while he worked at Oracle.
03:20 Fredrik talks about how Oracle sales are looking at support tickets you are logging if you are using unused software.
03:40 Fredrik asks Morten if you should complete Licensing Deployment sheets with your "new" Oracle account rep.
04:20 Fredrik explains that Virtualbox is always soft-audits

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Who is on Oracle Audit Partners targetlist?

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00:00 Fredrik asks who are the JPE audit partners targeting for audits?
00:10 Morten says that the Oracle Audit Program for partners are focusingon Oracle smaller customers.
00:55 Paul gives his view of who are usually found to be audited by partners in the JPE audit program. Paul also explains that you need to review your audit clause in your licensing agreement to understand if the partner has the right to audit your company.

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Oracle JPE & Partner Audit Program is simply wrong and the panel explains why Oracle should bin it.

51 views March 5, 2021 8:54 am

00:00 Kris Wong explains Oracle Audit Program for partners
00:30 Calls it a "wolf in sheeps clothing" and the quality of the audit is often low in Kris experience.
00:45 The partner has a conflict of interest and Oracle should not select audit partners who also resell Oracle software.
01:30 Sheshagiri says that Oracle India has recruited audit partners for India market. Oracle is increasing audit led partners in India according to Sheshagiri
03:04 Sheshagiri names the companies who is working with Oracle with audits in India
03:25 Morten talks about Seven Eight, Oracle largest audit partner globally.
04:25 Morten says that the audit partners are hosting Oracle licensing webinars without informing the attendees that the company hosting is actually working together with Oracle to perform audits of companies.
05:05 Does Oracle use the Big4 consultancy companies to do audits? Paul answers the question.
05:45 Paul shares which companies that are working with Oracle and auditing customers in the UK.
06:10 What does the partner think about the model where Oracle only pays the audit partner on resell margin for selling software identified as gaps in the audit? Paul calls it despicable behavior.
07:20 Several of us see that audits conducted by third party Oracle partners often have low quality
07:35 Do companies need to accept that a third party is auditing you instead of Oracle?




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Do we come across companies dumping Oracle Java and switching to Azul, Red Hat etc?

12 views March 4, 2021 3:31 pm

00:00 Start
00:12 Paul thinks that it is aspiration to move away from Oracle. He does not see many companies moving away from Oracle Java. In-house developed applications it may be easier, but for third party applications it is much more difficult.
01:35 Sheshagiri has had one customer who moved on desktop to another Java provider. Server side it was more difficult
02:33 Morten says that companies may have the will to move away from Oracle, but he says many underestimate the work involved. Morten mentions that us as licensing experts are most likely biased and we come across and work with companies who cannot move away from Oracle Java

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Stay on Oracle Java or move to OpenJDK? Does it lower your costs? Most likely not...

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ULA for Java - Yes or No ?

6 views March 4, 2021 3:21 pm

00:00
00:08 Paul has strong opinion on Java ULAs. Paul says they are not real ULAs and it is only a subscription ULA, you own no licenses at the end of the Java ULA.
00:50 When is Java ULA good? according to Paul there might be a few scenarios when it can be good.
01:40 Kris Wong says that a Java ULA "kick the can down the road" it gives you time to remediate financial risk or move away from Oracle
02:27 Sheshagiri had no seen any subscription ULAs, only seen old Java Advanced SE. Sheshagiri calls the Java ULA dangerous as it is only a subscription agreement.
04:02 Morten says that Oracle is using the opportunity to sell as many Java ULAs as possible due to Java deployed on virtualized deployments. That Oracle is asking for more money for Java ULAs than database ULAs



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Do you need to license older versions of Oracle Java?

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00:00 Kris wong talks about why so many companies have mistakenly thought that Java has been free to use.
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01:15 Fredriks asks why so many "Java licensing" blogs does not mention that there is a licensing agreement for older versions of Java and that it has substantial restrictions on usage.
01:56 Sheshagiri explains that Oracle did not talk about Java licensing to its customers. This only changed in 2019 and companies started to review what Java usage is free and what is licensable?
04:50 Morten talks the two different licensing agreement. When do you transition from one agreement to another. Morten also explains why Java Commercial Features becomes irrelevant

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Is Oracle auditing customers for Java? The Panel shares their experiences

8 views March 4, 2021 2:04 pm

Chapters:

00:00 Start
00:10 Kris wong shares his experience in Java and talks about how Oracle to his knowledge does not have a process or method for audint Java.
00:40 Sheshagiri has not seen any audits for end users, but he has seen Oracle audit solution providers who use Java in their solutions.
1:15 Morten explains that he has not seen any audits so far, if they happen they are on a case by case basis where Oracle selects a customer for audit and they have strong suspicion that they are underlicensed for Java.


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#03 -Oracle License Expert Panel on Java Licensing & Oracle Partner Audits

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Oracle License Training - Introduction into Oracle Licensing Part 1 of 8

2.7K views February 25, 2021 4:30 pm

Agenda:

Oracle Licensing & Software
CPU based licensing & Core Factor Table
Named User Plus licensing.
Oracle Licensing in Virtualized environments
Database options licensing.
How to analyze and detect database options usage.
Management Packs - Non - Compliance issues
Most common non-compliance issues seen.
Licensing Scenarios for production, test and backup.
License Optimisation Strategies
Oracle Server Worksheet (what is it? Sharing real life example)
Self-Study - What available online licensing resources are there?
Questions and Answers
What you will learn:

How to license Oracle Technology (DB and Middleware)
How you measure licensing, what tools are good for Oracle SAM.
How can external firms help you with Oracle.
Licensing Production, Licensing Test and backup – where are the savings.
Common non-compliance issues with Oracle Software.
Sharing a 5 step plan for how to optimize your Oracle Licensing.

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