In the last week, two reports about Oracle licensing have caught the eye. Both are aimed at the same thing: a mild pitch at negotiation in the run up to Oracle's financial year end. One from Forrester ...

One of the key tasks in Mergers & Acquisitions is coming up with an accurate view of all of the assets and liabilities of a target company. Depending on the size of the transaction, Oracle license ...

Oracle’s aggressive licensing practices have gained it considerable notoriety over the years, and on Tuesday, a Texas law firm specializing in technology issued a warning urging enterprises to beware.

The forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008 will see Microsoft focus its considerable resources on the issue of licensing, to win customers from rivals Oracle and IBM. Speaking to ZDNet Australia's ...

Oracle's "new" delivery options have been preceded by several packaging iterations since Oracle BusinessOnline was introduced in 1998. This offering has taken many turns, and the question inevitably ...

Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Oracle’s licensing practices have created a “hostile” relationship “filled with deep rooted mistrust” between the vendor and its customers, according to a survey that looked at users’ business ...

Now that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun, its strategy for Solaris customer support is becoming more clear. And that starts with changes to the license and support terms that may limit use ...

A 2016 Paris court ruling has recently come to light, revealing the extent to which software supplier Oracle will go in licensing disputes with its customers and approved Oracle implementation ...

Fiscal first quarter results for database leader Oracle Corp. trailed consensus estimates. (Fiscal years end with May.) Q1’15 revenues stood at $8.6 billion against consensus estimates of $8.77 ...