Oracle will soon announce their latest license revolution: The Cost of Doing Business Monitor (CDBM). The CDBM is a stand-alone computer that monitors your entire enterprise and charges you for each unit of work in which your enterprise engages.

It is a very sophisticated system that will track every mile driven, key pressed, KW/h of lighting used, oxygen breathed by employees, phone calls made, line of open source code used, etc. and will use electronic funds transfer (EFT) to forward those "license fees" in real-time to Oracle.

What if you don't use Oracle? Have no fear, the CDBM uses Oracle 10g to keep track of your units of work, so you will still owe the same amount if you use Oracle products or not.

Apparently, the philosophy behind this revolution is that anyone who makes money doing anything, most likely owes money to Oracle.