Oracle Database Service options for Azure Customers

We saw Larry Ellison visit Redmond for the first time to make an important partnership announcement with Satya Nadella. Yesterday’s announcement shows we have two similar-sounding Oracle database services on Azure. Oracle Database Service “FOR” Azure (ODSA) and Oracle Database “AT” Azure (OracleDatabase@Azure). Here is a quick note to understand the differences between these services … Read more

Oracle Database on Hyper-scale Public Cloud – License Questions!

We all know, on January 23, 2017, Oracle updated the Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment document. The gist of the announcement was “When counting Oracle Processor license requirements in Authorized Cloud Environments, the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is not applicable“. So, if you are running Oracle database on x86 Intel platform on-premise, … Read more