Our Java License Assessment Service & Analyzer is designed to provide customers a deep dive into current usage patterns to avoid compliance penalties.
Java’s licensing maze
For enterprises worldwide, navigating the ever-shifting landscape of Java licensing has become a growing headache. Oracle’s recent overhaul of the Java license metric has drastically inflated the cost of Java usage, with estimates suggesting a 10-fold to 14-fold increase.
This squeeze forces organizations to rethink their Java footprint, starting with a clear picture of their existing deployments.
Scope of Work in our Java License Assessment Service
The scope of our Java License Assessment Service includes:
- Java deployment discovery
- Data Normalization & Identifying to Oracle Java Agreements
- Contracts & Entitlement Analysis (Oracle and third party)
- Normalization with third party entitlements
- Normalization with other Oracle entitlements
- Reporting
- Negotiations and Hand Holding
Java Deployment Discovery & Raw Data Reporting
- Raw data discovery
- Support troubleshooting for the discovery
- Report Raw Deployment – with the Hostname, Path, Publisher, Version, Product information as scanned
Data Normalization & Contracts Analysis
- Process Raw Data – incl virtual env mappings
- Classify deployments into Oracle, Non-Oracle, OpenJDK and various Oracle Java agreements
- Normalization with Oracle and third-party entitlements
- Provide processed Deployment Report with Product information as scanned and thereafter Classification of Deployment
Reporting
- Determine license requirements on as is basis post completion of discovery
- Remediation and Rebalancing Recommendations
- Oracle deal structuring advisory
Negotiations & Hand-Holding
- Reviewing and drafting communication from/to Oracle
- Strategic and tactical plays for negotiations
- Reviews of commercial offers and agreement terms
- Participation in negotiations.
Sheshagiri Anegondi
Managing Partner of Rythium Technologies. Seventeen years at Oracle, from 1998 to 2015, in leadership roles including Vice President Sales, after Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Author of “Licensing Oracle: The Reference Manual for Managing Oracle License Compliance & Procuring Oracle Software, Hardware, Cloud & Services” (Notion Press, 2021) (ISBN 10: 1639046887).