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Microsoft customers now buy software licenses outright and can use them forever.
Software licenses fell to $803 million, from $1.1 billion during the comparable period last year.
BEA's sales of software licenses fell 11percentt in the six months ended July 31.
Sales of new software licenses rose 27percenttoto $3.1 billion, from $2.5 billion.
Oracle's revenue from new software licenses rose 10 percent, excluding Sun.
Analysts had expected a double-digit gain in new software licenses.
Software licenses commonly contain express warranties about the software's material conformity to certain specifications.
Oracle is mainly a traditional commercial software company, making its money selling software licenses.
Revenue from new software licenses increased 35percentt from the period a year earlier, to $1.1 billion.
Brian Goodwin, one of the class lawyers, said the deal covered 7.8 million software licenses in total.
New software licenses declined 8percentt last quarter, but software license renewals and product support services improved 9percentt.
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