Oracle Licensee Litigation Update: Oracle vs Envisage Is about to Settle
When we recently shared a blog post about Oracle vs Envisage, we promised that we would keep you informed of important developments as that matter unfolded. Here we are, scarcely a week later, reporting that the matter is likely … going away.
Envisage and NEC Corporation: Oracle has Begun Suing its Licensees
What is the Oracle licensee to make of this development? Two back-to-back anomalies? Or a stunning new chapter in Oracle’s ever-changing playbook?
Please Join Us This Thursday, July 29, 2021, for an LES Webinar!!
Are you worried that your company may be targeted by the “second wave” of aggressive software license auditors (such as Micro Focus and/or Quest)? Are you familiar with the peculiar incentives behind these and other newly aggressive software auditors? Bottom line: you probably should be.
We Teamed Up Again with LicenseFortress on an ITAM Podcast
At the end of last month, we had the pleasure of participating in Podcast Episode 104: Oracle’s New Audit Approach: How Should ITAM Teams Prepare?
Click-Through Software Vendor Contracts Are Anything But Inconsequential
Any software vendor contract should be approached with caution and trepidation – just because it is executed in a ‘click-through’ format does not mean that it should be treated any differently.
It’s Our First Anniversary as Pioneers in the Emerging World of Unbundled Law Firms
If this past year has taught us anything, it is that Beeman & Muchmore is at the forefront of an exciting and necessary evolution towards unbundled law firms. And our first year far surpassed our wildest dreams.
Our Letter of Thanks for a Sensational Year — and What a Year it’s Been
It seems a fitting bookend that now, on our one-year anniversary, many of us are beginning to emerge from the pandemic. As we collectively begin exploring just what our new world is and what it means to all of us, we continue to adhere to the mantra that launched our firm a year ago: The Best is Yet to Come.
Sunrise Firefighters and Google: Oracle’s Troubled 2021 Continues into the Courthouse
2021 isn’t shaping up to be Oracle’s year, and we explain what this means for the Oracle licensee: for now, the Oracle licensee can count a few blessings and look forward to the future with less apprehension.
“Vendor Software License Audits Have Become More Frequent. Are You Prepared?” Editorial Published in Database Trends and Applications
In this recently published article, co-authored with our partners Dean Bolton and Michael Corey of LicenseFortress, we discuss our observations regarding software license audits since the Covid-19 shutdown began just over one year ago.
Beware of Licensing Pitfalls When Running an Oracle Database on Amazon RDS: A 2-Part Blog Post by LicenseFortress
Dean Bolton, chief architect at LicenseFortress, wrote about how recent observations point to the fact that Oracle LMS auditors are taking more aggressive approaches to Amazon-RDS license-included instances.