An insurance group received an Oracle Java audit claim approaching $900,000. After a full evidence challenge, the claim was settled for zero — with no subscriptions purchased.
The insurer received an Oracle audit notice asserting that its Java SE deployments required commercial subscriptions, with an opening claim approaching $900,000. The claim leaned heavily on a single assumption: that any Oracle Java found in the estate was, by default, licensable.
That assumption is often wrong. Whether a given Java install costs anything depends entirely on which licence governs it, which version it is, and how it is used — and an Oracle opening position rarely makes those distinctions. The insurer needed someone to make them.
We managed the interaction with Oracle, set the scope, and ensured every claim was supported by evidence before it was accepted.
We catalogued each Java install — version, edition, and the licence under which it was obtained and used.
Installs covered by the NFTC, by free-to-use editions, by older BCL terms, or bundled inside other licensed products carry no separate subscription cost.
Every line of Oracle's claim was tested against the evidence. Each install that was already correctly licensed was removed from the figure.
With the claim reduced to nothing it could substantiate, the matter closed without the insurer purchasing a single new subscription.
Tested line by line against the evidence, Oracle's claim did not survive. The insurer settled the audit for $0 and bought no new Java SE subscriptions, because a correct reading of the licences showed that none were required.
The engagement was resolved in six weeks. The insurer also kept the inventory and licence mapping produced along the way — a ready-made defence file should Oracle ever return.
A claim approaching $900,000 was resolved at no cost.
The audit was scoped, challenged, and closed inside six weeks.
The inventory and licence mapping remain ready for any future review.
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