On the flipside, i once experienced a 'fun' renegotiation with oracle (surprise) when we were migrating to core-dense architectures and they changed their licen

On the flipside, i once experienced a 'fun' renegotiation with oracle (surprise) when we were migrating to core-dense architectures and they changed their licensing model - We could either move from 40k/instance to 40k/cpu (so in this case - pay 8x more), or, they would be willing to work with us on a low 'per client' fee. Unfortunately, the system in question was a network management system for many 1000s of devices, and they were attempting to treat each device & each person in the organization touching any software connected to the system as a 'client' ... management quickly started to investigate the viability of postgres/enterprisedb ... though I think in the end we were able to renegotiate oracle back down to this planet.