Oracle software costs are exploding. Last year the rate of increase for Oracle support went up by 100%. This means that customer support expenses are now increasing by 8% every year. This applies to existing contracts. For new contracts, Oracle customers even have to face an increase in support costs of 9% per year. "If you extrapolate the additional expenditure over the next few years, customers turn pale," explains Markus Oberg, specialist for Oracle third-party support at ProLicense. The Oracle experts at ProLicense know ways to escape the Oracle price spiral. One interesting possibility is the combination of Oracle third-party support and Oracle preowned software. ProLicense is Europe’s largest and…