Roman Kharkovski
Eric Berg
I recently worked with an Oracle customer in Northern Europe helping them to replace WebLogic with WebSphere. You might ask why would a Fortune 500 company with significant existing investment of time, skills and money would decide to move off WebLogic? In this and many other cases high cost of WebLogic support and new license cost was such a powerful motivator that CIO decided to uproot their established environment and move it off WebLogic. Indeed, this has become a common pattern among former BEA and current Oracle customers. Since Oracle acquired BEA in 2008 there were a number of changes that WebLogic customers had to deal with. Most of these changes had to do with the way Oracle decided to price and license WebLogic Server and other BEA software. One example of such change is the Oracle license policy for VMware and other hypervisors. This article describes the licensing and pricing changes Oracle introduced to ex-BEA customers.
Read full article here: How to cut your WebLogic license and maintenance costs in half?.
