You really need to contact a lawyer on this question. Any answer you
receive here will be non-authoritative. In addition, there are many Oracle
employees on the list whose answer will be constrained by their official
company line.
To you oracle employees - Im not intending this as an insult, I'm just
pointing out we cannot expect an answer outside of the official company
line from someone whose livelihood depends on Oracle.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:35 AM, ed lewis <eglewis71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
We've been asked to explore the possibility of dropping Oracle
support for a specific application. The plan is to retire this application
sometime in the next 18-24 months, but management is looking some
money now.
The support contracts for this environment run over $300k.
I spoke to an Oracle contract person about canceling our support.
This person mentioned that if we do, we will not be legally able
to run any Oracle software on these servers.
Has anyone come across this ? We've purchased the license
so why can't we run the software, but drop the support ?
Your feedback is appreciated.
Ed
