GartnerAssignment Rights
If the OLSA does not include the customer's rights to assign the licenses due to a merger or
acquisition, this would be a good place to include these rights, which Oracle generally does allow.
Also, if there is any possibility of a divestiture, include the right to process for a divested entity for
12 months. Oracle seems to resist the contractual right to actually transfer licenses to a divested
entity but has done so in reality. However, it generally will not agree to this in the actual contract
because the right to transfer licenses to a divested entity seems to be a business decision by Oracle
(sometimes it will do this and sometimes it will not). If the organization has strong leverage to
negotiate these rights, a good approach is to include in the language that the licenses and
associated maintenance will be pro-rated according to the division of the existing systems between
the two entities.

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