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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Oracle recently published a policy document entitled “Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment” which sets out specific requirements on customers when licensing various Oracle ...

‘Some licenses, you know, classically are used on-premise, but a lot of the new licenses that we‘re selling allow our customers to ... run them in the cloud, whether it’s our cloud or other people‘s ...

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 has come under considerable fire over the years for its restrictive license terms and aggressive audit program, but it appears at least some change is on the way. Companies using Oracle’s ...

As of July 8, each core of new multi-core AMD or Intel processors will be licensed as if it were 75 percent of a CPU. CRN broke the news of the change on Wednesday. Oracle pricing and licensing guru ...

Burton Group's Chris Wolf has fired a salvo in Oracle's direction concerning its x86 hypervisor licensing policy. This is a long extract from a much more in depth piece but it is necessary to see what ...