Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns (scottandscottllp.com)

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 15, 2015 @07:32AM from the how-much-ya-got? dept.

itwbennett writes: Slashdot readers are no strangers to Oracle's aggressive licensing practices, practices that have earned them notoriety over the years. This week, Texas law firm Scott & Scott wrote a blog post warning enterprises about the 'traps' in Oracle software licensing. One of the biggest problems with Oracle software is how difficult it is for companies to track internally what they're using and how they're using it, said Julie Machal-Fulks, a partner with Scott & Scott, in an interview with Katherine Noyes. 'They may use just one Oracle product and think they're using it correctly, but then Oracle comes along and says, 'no, you're using it wrong — you owe us a million bucks.'

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Re:LOL .. RICO by jedidiah · 2015-10-15 07:57 · Score: 4, Insightful

While Postgres seems to be built by people that seem to understand the requirements for a production RDBMS, MySQL comes off like a toy made for lazy developers.

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Re:Never Again by jrumney · 2015-10-15 14:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

There are a lot of Anonymous FUDsters posting from Redwood today.