> Of those companies listed, maybe you can finger Oracle for their shenanigans with Java. Oracle licensing on the cloud can be byzantine. In part because thei

> Of those companies listed, maybe you can finger Oracle for their shenanigans with Java. Oracle licensing on the cloud can be byzantine. In part because their sales people don't seem to all have the same understanding. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/data-architecture-blog/constrained-vcpu-and-oracle-licensing-in-azure/ba-p/3041537 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/data-architecture-blo... (read the comments!) Of course, license true-ups in my experience are allowed the latitude of, "Whatever you can get them to agree to". I've heard a few times Oracle sales folks trying to pressure companies into buying licenses for all physical machine cores for the host underneath their VM's in the cloud. Which is, frankly, malarkey and not even supported by their own docs. (Apparently this is how it is licensed on-prem if you own a VMWare cluster or something, but they carve out an exemption specifically for cloud hosting in their docs - but they try anyways)