Posts by oldCynic();

SAP makes last-minute change to replacement of 80-year-old co-founder

I bet there's a terrifyingly literal German Translation that means something entirely different

Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit

I kind of get the Postgress slingers point, but it's hiding a few truths. In a ULA, you get all you can eat for a limited period of time, say three years, upon the end of such period there is a tally up. Regardless of if you have deployed 1 core or 10,000 cores, you keep paying the same dollar figure to keep using that quantity. If you want to keep growing, you sign up another ULA for another period of time and so on ad infinitum. Most customers are savvy enough to deploy quite a lot more than they actually need prior to tally up time. ULA's are one of the few ways you can beat O at the licensing game. I'm surprised they're still offered.