Oracle Based Infrastructure question

Question

Do you have any info on core technology licensing in the cloud??  This is becoming a bigger and bigger issue as customers are trying to move to a cloud based infrastructure to avoid Oracle licensing requirements.  I would like to become way more educated on licensing in the cloud so please forward any partner approved material on that subject please.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there's no way to avoid licensing our software, whether for a public or private cloud.
If it's a private cloud (on-premise), the standard licensing rules apply based on either user, processor core factor, approved hard partition (eg., OVM), etc.
For a 3rd party public cloud, the licensing rules can be found here:  http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/cloud-licensing-070579.pdf. The important point is that it needs to be an approved cloud platform, such as Amazon or Microsoft.
For our own cloud, pricing (in most cases) is clearly listed at https://cloud.oracle.com/home. For example, our Database Cloud pricing is here:  https://cloud.oracle.com/database?tabID=1406491812773.