How can revenues be up?
You can almost hear their customers shouting "Thank you, sir. May I have another?" as the punishment continues!
Oracle has capped off a solid fiscal year, and, let's be fair, you can forgive it for boasting that big things are coming for its database line in the coming 12 months. On Tuesday, Larry Ellison's enterprise tech giant delivered both the Q4 and full year 2018 numbers reports. It also described its new tactic of bundling the …
Two thirds of the money is in cloud services and licensing support. I'm guessing most of it is licensing support, since people tend to rate Oracle's cloud offering as at best a distant fourth place. But what is licensing support? Is Oracle's licensing model so bad that the world is paying about $20 billion a year to cope with it?
Licensing support seems to bring in significantly more than licensing in any case.
I assume it's the 'friendly name' for their license enforcement division.
Speaking of which, you read the article with both eyes, however your license only allows for single-eye reading, so Oracle are going to have to fine you. Oh, and once they fine you you still have to pay to upgrade your license for binocular reading.
Oh And the instructions to turn on binocular reading was included in the release install guide, but you really should not have turned it on if you didn't want the license cost to increase. What do you mean your DBA/ Unix admin / gap year student isn't a licencing expert???