asciii 3 days ago

I believe enterprise customers are not going to care much unless it helps with lowering existing costs.

OTOH, Oracle as part of BSA can demand an audit so they will inflict / make up reason to also punish (i.e. licensing or pull support). The business could invoke an MSA punishment clause and win temporarily but it will cause a headache going forward (further demands from Oracle, higher costs etc.)

Either way, Oracle gets what they want.

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praptak 3 days ago

Unless the customer already wants to ditch Oracle.

stackskipton 3 days ago

Very few companies want to business with Oracle (or IBM). Most are either stuck with either and costs of switching are too high for executive to greenlight.