In the last week, two reports about Oracle licensing have caught the eye. Both are aimed at the same thing: a mild pitch at negotiation in the run up to Oracle's financial year end. One from Forrester ...

As of July 8, each core of new multi-core AMD or Intel processors will be licensed as if it were 75 percent of a CPU. CRN broke the news of the change on Wednesday. Oracle pricing and licensing guru ...

Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

The US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology.… However, experts have pointed out ...

Software licensing can be a tricky issue, especially with all of the different software policies and the high number of moving parts involved in a licensing agreement. To help customers correctly ...