Wednesday 27 July 2016

What's the biggest trap for users in an Oracle licensing agreement?

Let's assume you've made it past the signing of your contract while staying in compliance. Now you're faced with a never-ending series of contractual terms that can lead you into a noncompliant position. Can your organization use the software outside its home country? Can external clients use the software? What happens if your company is acquired? All of these questions are real issues faced by businesses every day. If you don't anticipate such issues when negotiating an Oracle licensing agreement, it's very easy to find yourself accidentally out of compliance.

    If you try to fix your license problems by starting with the technology and counting processors, you're just digging yourself into a deeper hole.

As if that wasn't bad enough, there's more. There are also some contractual licensing traps that aren't actually in your Oracle contract. An Oracle licensing agreement contains a lot of links to further resources on Oracle's licensing policies. Why do you think Oracle doesn't include links to those documents in the final contract? If it really wanted you to read them, it would have left them in the contract itself.

In addition, there are various policies that Oracle doesn't even mention in its contracts. For instance, there's nothing about virtualization -- the Oracle policy document says it's not part of the contract. As you may already know from past experience, this lack of clarity causes major problems.
Source:-techtarget
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