I'm now finally involved with a client who has gone down this road and
Oracle lost the discussion. Of course legally I can neither confirm nor
deny how many millions were involved in the ULA that was cancelled along
with neither confirming nor denying any outright effort to move to a
different vendor. :-)
Dave
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Audits are back, for some time now:
http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/oracle-plays-hardball/
The best way to stop that practice is to change the DB vendor.
Fortunately, there are 3 large competitors to Oracle Corp: Microsoft, IBM
and SAP. Oracle will stop doing that when they lose sufficient number of
customers. It's called "market economy". Technological gap between Oracle
and their competitors has shrunk significantly. SQL Server 2016 and DB2
11.1 are excellent databases which can do almost anything that Oracle can
do. DB2 can even execute PL/SQL natively. I am not so sure about SAP Hana,
but there is an increasing number of adopters. One way of avoiding vendor
lock-in is using Java-based MVC frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. I
would avoid applications written specifically for Oracle and always
consider database neutral alternatives, should they exist.
Regards
On 11/01/2017 01:17 PM, Chris Taylor wrote:
I think I read a few months (a year?) that Oracle had stepped up its
license reviews as a way to generate revenue.
I'll have to see if I can find it again.
Chris
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
Tel: (347) 321-1217
