From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 8/15/2025 9:48 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > Oracle license policy in general including Oracle DB (sometimes   
   > called Oracle Classic in VMS circles) is that customers pay   
   > per physical core with the exception that it is by VCPU if it is in   
   > Oracle environment: KVM on Oracle Linux on-prem or in OCI. I believe   
   > recently Oracle made some agreement with MS about Oracle DB in Azure,   
   > so maybe that will work as well - those interested should talk to   
   > their friendly Oracle sales person about that.   
   Apparently Oracle has also made some deal with AWS.   
      
   https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/08/oracle-aws-exadata/   
      
   Not Rdb. Totally different.   
      
   But I think it indicate that if a customer wants to run   
   some Oracle stuff outside of OCI, then if there is enough   
   money involved, then the cloud vendors will find a solution.   
      
   Arne   
      
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