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At a prior employer, the CIO was so pissed off about Oracle licensing that he seriously considered freezing Oracle versions (as a prelude to migration off the p
by coredog64 10y ago
At a prior employer, the CIO was so pissed off about Oracle licensing that he seriously considered freezing Oracle versions (as a prelude to migration off the platform) and buying third party support from Rimini Street.
If enough businesses pursue that option, then the cash cow of annual support dries up and Oracle is in a world of hurt.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago"If enough businesses pursue that option, then the cash cow of annual support dries up and Oracle is in a world of hurt." They could just raise licensing costs. They've already won on API copyrights. Businesses would have to move everything off Oracle entirely with new API's to avoid legal risk. Such moves, esp if Oracle docs suck as much as claimed here, can cost a fortune with huge chance of breaking stuff. Oracle just has to keep cost of licensing lower than that of a move.