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Standard Edition on Oracle Database Appliance

By Franck Pachot . The Oracle Database Appliance is really interresting for small enterprises. It’s very good hardware for very good price. It’s capacity on demand licensing for Enteprise Edition. But small companies usually go to Standard Edition for cost reasons. Then does it make sense to propose only Enterprise Edition to the small companies that are interrested by ODA?… 

All you need to know about Oracle Database licensing with VMware

You are running Oracle on VMware and are not 100% sure that you are compliant with the Oracle licensing rules? This article is for you! As I have been confronted several times with Oracle License reviews with VMware installations, I decided to write this article in order to provide answers to the most frequent questions I have received from customers.… 

Processor licensing for Oracle database on VMware ESX

In this post, I would like to share with you what I have learned about Oracle licensing particularities on a virtualization infrastructure (software partitioning) based on VMware ESX. Recently, I faced an Oracle licensing problem on a VMware ESX cluster on which I had to find a workaround in order to make the hardware comply with the customer’s licensing model.…