Answer yes or no to each question below. Then count your yes answers to find your Oracle audit temperature.
The ten questions
- Have you consolidated hardware or modernized infrastructure in the last 18 months?
- Do you use virtualization software such as VMware in your Oracle data centers?
- Do you have multiple production clones, staging areas or other test and development environments?
- Do you use a third-party outsourcer to manage your IT or to provide remote database administration?
- Do you have any Oracle-based disaster recovery environments?
- Do you have Named User Plus licenses?
- Do you have any old license metrics? Check your support renewals and contracts for old UPU metrics on Oracle Database.
- Have you made acquisitions or divestments, or been in a merger, since your last purchase of Oracle products?
- Do you provide a chargeable service to customers that runs on applications built on Oracle products?
- Do you have multiplexing scenarios?
Temperature scale
- One yes: some potential risk
- Six yes: very high risk of an Oracle audit
If your score is high, a baseline Oracle license review shows where you stand before Oracle asks. If an audit notice has already arrived, see Oracle license audit defense. The author is Sheshagiri Anegondi, our Managing Partner.
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” (2021, ISBN 10: 1639046887).
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