Re: Another License Review

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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