At the end of January 2017, Oracle updated its Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment Document, which effectively removed the core factor 0.5 for Intel and instead made it 1:1, doubling the licensing costs overnight!

For reference, the old document can be found here.

You can imagine this caused a major stir on Social Media, where my friend Tim Hall posts on this topic became very hot!  You can read them here:
1. https://oracle-base.com/blog/2017/01/28/oracles-cloud-licensing-change-be-warned/
2. https://oracle-base.com/blog/2017/02/09/oracle-sad-times/

I’m certainly no Cloud license expert, but fortunately my colleagues in the SAM (Software Assess Management) Team have written a great White Paper to add clarity to the matter:
Oracle Authorized Cloud Environments Overview of Policy Changes

Feel free to take a read.

You can follow V1 SAM Twitter here.
And get more info here.

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Thanks

Zed DBA (Zahid Anwar)