Oracle has come under considerable fire over the years for its restrictive license terms and aggressive audit program, but it appears at least some change is on the way. Companies using Oracle’s ...

Oracle began incentivizing perpetual licenses in favor of subscription deals as it introduced its database systems via rival cloud vendors, say licensing experts.… In a series of announcements over ...

A handful of customers who complained to Meta Group about what they saw as Oracle's reinterpretation of their database licensing costs, will "be grandfathered in" and not asked for more money, a ...

When it comes to database workloads, the shift to the cloud has only barely begun. Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison recently explained how, as that shift accelerates, the transition of ...

Oracle CTO Larry Ellison on Tuesday unveiled a set of programs designed to make it easier for customers to move to the cloud and consume cloud services. With the new "Bring Your Own License" program, ...

Oracle is today increasing the drumbeat in anticipation of its upcoming OpenWorld conference with new licensing options for customers moving to Oracle Cloud, and claims of a 50% or more price ...

Back on June 10, as part of a low-key release of Berkeley DB, Oracle quietly changed the license of this important embedded database library, widely used as a key-value store within other applications ...