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SQL Server Standard vs Enterprise: Features, Limits and Licensing

By Shaun Ashbury | October 14, 2026

SQL Server Standard and Enterprise run the same engine. What separates them is the per-instance core and memory cap, high…

When AI Can Rebuild Any App: Licensing, IP and Vendor Lock-In

By Shaun Ashbury | October 8, 2026

AI-assisted projects rebuilt Photoshop, Word, Excel, AutoCAD and Pro Tools as open source in about a week. What that means…

VMware vs Hyper-V: Licensing, Features and Migration Compared

By Shaun Ashbury | October 8, 2026

Hyper-V has no hypervisor licence of its own; it rides on Windows Server Datacenter, unlimited VMs included. VMware, under Broadcom,…

Oracle Database 19c vs 23ai: Support, Features and Licensing Compared

By Shaun Ashbury | October 6, 2026

Oracle Database 19c and 23ai are both current Long Term Releases with support past 2029. The core licensing model is…

SQL Server on VMware: Licensing the Host, the VM or the Cluster

By Shaun Ashbury | October 1, 2026

SQL Server on VMware can be licensed per VM, per host, or per cluster, and only one of the three,…

NEO Brings AI-Powered OCR Extraction to License and Contracts Manager

By Shaun Ashbury | September 30, 2026

NEO now brings AI-powered OCR extraction to License and Contracts Manager. Drop in software contracts and purchasing documents in any…

The Infrastructure Data Problem Behind Every Licensing Risk

By Shaun Ashbury | September 29, 2026

Oracle's core factor table, its partitioning policy, and Red Hat's VDC subscriptions are three different rules with the same failure…

Red Hat Virtual Datacenter Subscriptions: Hosts, Guests and the Unregistered Systems

By Shaun Ashbury | September 24, 2026

Red Hat VDC is bought on the host socket-pair and covers unlimited guests on it, which is exactly why the…

Software License Management: What It Is, How Compliance Works, and the Practices That Hold Up in an Audit

By Shaun Ashbury | September 23, 2026

Software license management is matching what you're entitled to run against what you actually run and use. License compliance is…

How to Read an Oracle LMS Audit Report Before You Reply

By Shaun Ashbury | September 22, 2026

An Oracle LMS audit report is raw script output, not a bill. The scripts flag a feature the moment it…

The Decision-Ready Visibility Guide for CIOs and IT Operations Leaders

By Shaun Ashbury | September 21, 2026

More reporting does not guarantee better software decisions. It often guarantees more interpretation work, more coordination overhead, and more hesitation…

Hypervisor Choice and Oracle Licensing: Why the Platform Sets the Bill

By Shaun Ashbury | September 17, 2026

Under Oracle's partitioning policy a two-vCPU database is two licences on one hypervisor and the whole cluster on another. The…

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