Oracle “On the way home” sessions with Valid
This July the ‘Extended Support’ on Oracle 9 will be discontinued. As database-upgrades often raise a lot of questions and concerns, License Consulting and Valid will host a series of ‘on-the-way-home’ sessions about this subject. End users can attend – for free – and will get insight in the effect of support agreements and fees, as well as the impact of compliance: Many companies are incompliant without knowing it, and an upgrade is a great time to quantify and solve this problem. We will present our most recent case where a potential license cost with many (!!) figures was due, but with mutual efforts this need for Oracle licenses was reduced to almost zero. Read more
Court decision – Oracle vs License Consulting 0:1
Indeed it is an incredible title for an article, and I never thought anything like it would be written by me.
Sometime last year, my house was raided by Oracle. 2 policemen and 3 bailiffs showed up, with a court order that allowed them to secure data that I obtained during a licensing project at one of my clients. Oracle was then tempting me to handover that confidential information voluntarily, not realizing I’d rather go bankrupt than do such a hideous thing Read more


