Struggling with Oracle licensing? Dump your systems integrator, suggests DVLA CTO

Sooraj Shah
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Systems integrators have no motive to reduce your licence footprint, says Iain Patterson

Customers of Oracle, and other traditional licence-based software vendors, are becoming increasingly tired of the way that they are treated - at least that seems to be the general consensus from CI...

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