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I think it depends on how expensive your software is, and who makes the 'decision'.

I've seen thousands of WinZip installs go unlicensed for years.

I doubt anybody pirates Oracle for business use though.

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Same experience here, but consider this:

WinZip will work forever without being licensed. Oracle makes you buy a new license for every core.

Part of it might be the cost of the software, but pirating Oracle is also much harder than pirating WinZip.

Actually Corel just changed winzip to stop working after 60 days and saw a sales increase of 20%.

I always wondered how they made any money - then I did some work for the US DoD. Nearly every desktop has a licensed copy of WinZip! My new firm has WinZip licenses as well - while Windows can do zip files natively now, it still cannot (as far as I know?) encrypt them natively.

Thanks. My software is somewhere in-between: Both its price and its 'importance for the business' is somewhere between WinZip and Oracle.

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