We're in the midst of an annual Oracle license audit/anal probe and it's a nightmare. I am continually astonished that they are still in business. Every vendor has their issues with licensing, sometimes really ugly ones, but Oracle goes in dry. They don't even give you a reach-around. They're a cut above in their utter douchebaggery. Reminds me a lot of Sun under Scott McNealy, whose sole operating philosophy in sales was to slam the competition and in a really ugly and mean-spirited way. Ellison seems to rule his team in exactly the same manner. And to boot it's not like their software is even half decent. Their enterprise software in particular utter crap cobbled together from a thousand acquisitions.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
