It’s nothing new for vendors to find ways to lock in customers to their products and cloud services. Oracle recently announced it will no longer support multi-tenancy in cloud deployments outside its own ecosystem—despite this still being listed in its official documentation. While this move is clearly intended to drive customers toward Oracle Cloud, it may instead push them away from Oracle entirely.
A bit of history
This isn’t a new pattern, Oracle has a long history of licensing changes that prioritize sales over customer needs, frustrating many who calculate core licensing outside of OCI. Vendors often become insulated,