Oracle’s eDelivery portal is wide open—anyone can just download any on-prem software they want, no customer account required. We’re basically giving the stuff away for free while the company bleeds millions. Management doesn’t lift a finger to fix it. Then they turn around and cut our jobs. Peak incompetence.
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It’s always been this way. Money comes from licensing.
@s6 so the download site is a honey pot for the legal team. They aren't going to tighten up access if it generates money down the road.
No there are no license keys, it's the honor system. The control aspect is that you could get audited and at that time you need to pay for everything in use, with charges for back support going back to time you started using it.
Yo so this is an intentional move Oracle does so they can sue people to collect revenue later once they trip over the terms and conditions.
Similarly - there are many Oracle products where customers can add more users on their own - but nothing in the interface shows that this costs more; expect to get an email from your account manager asking to true up what you owe them.
A law firm that happens to sell software!
@a4 IIRC, you could always download the software, but do need a license to use it. So yeah, download away, but just TRY to use it without that license key
Doesn't the software need license keys?