Most of the licensing work I see this year goes to the big names: Microsoft renewals, Broadcom’s VMware bundles, Oracle Java and database exposure. Every IT and procurement team already watches those. What worries me is what those teams miss while…
SharePoint Out of Storage? How We Freed 55% in 48 Hours
For months, our Microsoft 365 tenant had been sending the same email: “SharePoint Online is out of storage space.” We were running about a third over the limit, and the alert told us storage was full without explaining why. The obvious…
Microsoft Licensing Changes, October 2026
What changed in Microsoft licensing in October 2026. Eleven CSP promotions expired on September 30 and a 5% cost-of-capital uplift began on October 1, both limited to the Cloud Solution Provider channel. Five Microsoft lifecycle clocks stop together on October 13….
Oracle Database Options Are Licensed by Use, Not Purchase.
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition will let you use almost every extra-cost option and management pack it sells without a license key, a prompt, or a warning. It will also keep a permanent record of what you did. I have spent a…