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Towards Economic and Compliant Deployment of Licenses in a Cloud Architecture


Abstract:

Today, the use of software is regulated by licenses, whether they are free, paid for and with or without access to its sources. The number of licenses required for specif...Show More

Abstract:

Today, the use of software is regulated by licenses, whether they are free, paid for and with or without access to its sources. The number of licenses required for specific software can be calculated with several metrics, each defined by the software vendor. This article will present the impact and importance of managing those licenses when using software in a clouded architecture. We will therefore propose a study of one software sold by Oracle: the Oracle database. We will first review the existing situation and the current problem, then we will propose a deployment algorithm that takes into account two specific metrics for this software. Finally, we will compare our results with various existing deployment algorithms.
Date of Conference: 02-07 July 2018
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 11 September 2018
ISBN Information:
Electronic ISSN: 2159-6190
Conference Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

I. Introduction

Nowadays, software can be licensed in many ways by fulfilling what is called a metric. A metric defines a way to calculate the number of licenses required for software, so it can be licensed with licenses under metric A or licenses under metric B. The price of licenses depends on the metric used. The metrics of software licenses are defined contractually either by the general conditions of sale found on the publisher's website or by a contract between the buyer and the publisher. The general terms and conditions of sale available online can be modified at any time, but a license purchased prior to a change in the legal text must follow the old version of the metric definition, so it is necessary to have a continuous monitoring of these metrics and the ability to identify and retrieve the legal documents of each license in the computer park.

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