Independent Oracle licensing advice, 25+ years experience.
Lime Software Ltd is an Oracle GLAS-verified licensing consultancy. We build our own Oracle-verified detection tooling and deliver fixed-scope risk reviews — not software you buy, always agentless, zero footprint. We have never sold an Oracle licence, and we are 100% independent.
Which part of your Oracle estate are you worried about?
Each Solution below maps to a fixed-scope risk review for one of Oracle technology or Applications or Cloud Services. Pick the one that matches what you're running — if more than one applies, start with whichever you feel has the most risk for your organisation.
JSE-License
Java SE / JRE usage, NFTC-vs-OTN exposure and the 2023 per-employee metric.
jse-license.com →SBL-License
Siebel component and user licensing. Custom Responsibility mapping, checking user product usage.
sbl-license.com →EBS-License
EBS module and Application User licensing, Application User Responsibility mapping.
ebslicense.com →OCI SaaS Cost Check
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle SaaS subscription licensing and consumption exposure.
costcheck.cloud →DB-License
Full Deep dive Oracle Database Option and OEM Pack Analysis — Standard Edition, Enterprise Edition, Full Effective License Position
limesquared.com →FMW-License
WebLogic, SOA Suite and related Fusion Middleware component licensing.
limesquared.com →Discovery-License
Not sure where your exposure sits? A discovery scan across your Oracle estate points you at the review you actually need.
limesquared.com →ULA Data Collection
Unlimited License Agreement certification support and post-exit audit defence.
limesquared.com →Oracle licensing, on one page.
One-page briefings for the people who sign Oracle contracts and the people who run them. Free to download — no form, no email address.
Your Oracle ULA has an end date. Plan your exit now.
What to do at each stage of a ULA, where CIOs get caught, and what to ask your DBA team.
Read and download →An independent Oracle licensing consultancy.
Lime Software Ltd is an Oracle GLAS-verified Software licensing consultancy with over 25 years of Oracle licensing experience. We work for the organisation being audited or trued up for their ULA contracts — never for Oracle, and never as a reseller of Oracle licences.
Built from the ground up
Our detection tooling is developed in-house and verified by Oracle under the 3rd Party Tool Vendor (3PTV) programme, we don't just use Oracle LMS Scripts, we have taken them apart and tested them against stringent criteria to ensure our clients understand the exact nature of their Risks. So the output is accepted in formal audit submissions — not generic SAM-tool guesswork.
Consulting, not software
Every engagement is delivered as fixed-scope professional services: A Statement of Work is agreed up front. No software licence, no subscription, no ongoing vendor relationship to manage.
350+ Oracle licensing engagements, Fortune 200 to public sector.
Oracle LMS Verified for over 10 years, with clients spanning banking, insurance, pharma, consumer packaged goods, retail , power and media. UK based, with around 60% of our customers outside the UK.
The Result.
Three examples, spanning Java, a full Oracle LMS audit defence, and a multi-year engagement covering ULA, PaaS/SaaS and a cloud migration.
UK Local Authority — facing a significant Oracle Java renewal uplift.
A full estate scan showed no requirement for widespread Java licensing — the authority's actual exposure was far narrower than Oracle's proposed renewal implied. They went into renewal negotiations with evidence, not guesswork, securing a significantly reduced cost versus the original uplift, and retained a limited level of licensing as a deliberate, risk-based choice given estate complexity — not because the data demanded it.
"Your approach was consistently supportive, accommodating and knowledgeable, which gave the team confidence in both the analysis and the decisions that followed … your expertise and the clarity of your recommendations enabled us to make an informed, evidence-based decision and achieve a far more cost-effective outcome."
Global Retailer (300+ stores) — contacted by Oracle for a formal LMS audit.
Lime Software managed the audit end-to-end across Database, Middleware and E-Business Suite — full contract gap-analysis, estate-wide data collection, and an Effective License Position built to defend the client's actual entitlement. The audit concluded with minimal business disruption and £375,000 in Oracle licensing risk remediated, with only minimal further licence purchase required.
"No backend infrastructure, no additional databases to set up and maintain, minimal resources required to deploy, automated data collection, no real user intervention required."
North American Energy Company — a multi-year relationship across ULA, cloud and migration planning.
Having first supported this client's Oracle contract position, Lime Software returned the following year for a broader engagement: a ULA renewal go/no-go decision, a PaaS review and a SaaS review, and follow-up support on the ULA's migration to Azure — covering 1,500 Fusion Middleware servers.
Enabling the client to make a clean decision whether to stay in their ULA or continue. Enabling cloud readiness and a large-scale FMW migration, ensuring the compliance through-out the ongoing delivery.
Talk to us about your Oracle estate.
Whichever product fits your estate, get in touch, and we'll show you the value we deliver.