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Input from a source at Deloitte

I have now had an email from someone at Deloitte, sounding mildly irritated at our guesswork around Oracle fees.

"The implied suggestion is that TfL had to incur a cost to obtain an Oracle license or support," we are told. "That's not necessarily true - it's quite feasible for an organisation of that size to have an 'unlimited' type of licensing arrangement for one vendor's products."

Perhaps everyone else knows this, but that sort of licensing is actually a new thing to me. It would indeed explain TfL's use of Oracle much more simply than my guesswork. It's there, it's got the features, and it's paid for, so they used it.

Unlimited licences certainly do exist. Here's Gartner advising on them.
http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=498258
I'm now interested to know how they work, both in practical terms and in terms of how they shape the market.

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