[wlug] “We Had To Educate Oracle About Our Contract”

Slightly chilling words to hear, don’t you think? Corporations that do volume deals with proprietary suppliers like Oracle and SAP have to agree to allow periodic audits by the vendor to ensure they are complying with the licence terms. Vendors have been known to try to pull a fast one during these audits. This customer <https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/06/oracle_audits/> mentions that Oracle, in particular, had a tendency to assume the software was licensed under their current terms, when in fact the contract was agreed under quite different, older terms. Hence the need to keep “educating” (i.e. reminding) the vendor about what the correct criteria were.