“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.
Guest Blog Post: Why You Should Plan for Oracle’s End-of-Fiscal-Year Now
At the end of 2020, as the Christmas season was approaching, Lena Weiner of LicenseFortress posted the following wise words regarding preparing for Oracle’s end-of-fiscal-year. In cooperation with our partners and friends at LicenseFortress, we are reposting the sage wisdom here, with an easy quarter to go before Oracle’s fiscal year-end.
Law360 Publishes Beeman & Muchmore Article: “What the Oracle-TikTok Saga Means for Oracle Licensees”
We are delighted to share news that on January 20th, 2021, Law360 published a consolidation of several of our blog posts in an article titled “What the Oracle-TikTok Saga Means for Oracle Licensees”. We have admired the efforts of Law360 for decades and are honored to, once again, have our efforts associated with that institutional publication.
*Updated* Postscript: Oracle & TikTok
In the time since we published Part III, Trump lost the Presidential election and a new administration will occupy the White House later this week. So, how does it appear the Trump/Oracle/TikTok saga will end?
Happy Holidays from Beeman & Muchmore!
As we say farewell to 2020, we would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continued support of Beeman & Muchmore. To say that 2020 has been an interesting year would be an understatement, as abrupt changes swept across the globe in nearly every profession and walk of life.
Deep in the Heart of Texas: What Should Oracle Licensees Think About Oracle’s Move to Austin?
On December 11, 2020, Oracle Corporation announced that they will be moving corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. Moving to the Lone Star State has recently been trending among tech companies and high-profile business titans. But what does this mean for the Oracle licensee?
More on Our New Partnership with LicenseFortress!
We were thrilled to to be featured yesterday on Database Trends and Application’s website as they shared the news of our exciting new endeavor with LicenseFortress!
The Oracle Securities Litigation: The Hero We May Want (but Perhaps Not the Hero We Will Get)
The nakedly optimistic legal axiom “Where there is a wrong there is a remedy” gives a blanket assurance that all legitimate grievances are inherently susceptible to redress. For those of us who live in the software licensing space and believe Oracle’s infamously aggressive auditing and licensing tactics are such a wrong, we often ask ourselves whether Oracle will ever find itself targeted by the right remedy at the right time.
Google v. Oracle
If any of your company’s employees use Java – which, if you are tech or tech-adjacent, some almost certainly do – your company’s vulnerability to Oracle audits is likely to increase over the next few years. And, in this post, we explain why.