[From SearchServerVirtualization]
An increasing number of VMware shops have expressed interest in migrating their Oracle
applications off dedicated physical machines and onto virtual machines (VMs), but Oracle’s virtualization-unfriendly licensing and support policies don’t make the move easy.
Just like any complex application, a lot of apps from the Redwood City, Calif.-based Oracle consist of database, management software and middleware elements that work together but are scattered among several machines…
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