Richard Spithoven

Richard Spithoven is one of the managing partners at B-Lay. Richard brings more than thirteen years of relevant license management experience to his role having previously served as regional director of compliance at Oracle.

Richard uses his knowledge of enterprise software vendors (such as Oracle, SAP, IBM and Microsoft) to educate, equip and enable software end users in their challenges regarding proper software license management. Richard holds a master’s degree in IT, from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

Software Publishers

Oracle on VMware – adding non-standard terms to your Oracle agreement

Most people are aware that Oracle classifies – in its Partitioning policy – the different virtualization/server partitioning technologies into: Soft Partitioning Hard Partitioning Oracle Trusted ... Read more

Written by: Richard Spithoven

Published on: September 5, 2018

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Oracle Database 18c: what’s new

Oracle Database 18c was introduced in late 2017 by Larry Ellison, Oracle’s executive chairman and CTO, as ‘a big thing’. Also called the “Oracle Autonomous ... Read more

Written by: Richard Spithoven

Published on: July 13, 2018

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Are you sure you’re compliant with your Oracle ULA in the Public Cloud?

Approximately 10 years ago, Oracle Corporation started to sell a type of agreement known as the “Unlimited License Agreement” (ULA). An Unlimited License Agreement provides ... Read more

Written by: Richard Spithoven

Published on: June 12, 2018