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So Oracle's future is based on those large enterprises, while the more nimble, those that will be large enterprises down the road, steer away from Oracle? Maybe

So Oracle's future is based on those large enterprises, while the more nimble, those that will be large enterprises down the road, steer away from Oracle? Maybe Oracle realised that they won't be winning the smaller one's over and now decided to squeeze the larger ones even more.

protomyth 10y ago
Or they realize that your small nimble companies will "grow up" and hire experienced managers who will put in place rules that require mature vendors and Oracle gets another generation of company. Happens a lot, sadly. Idealism gets beaten and the people who don't like Oracle jump ship to new and exciting nimble companies.
Spooky23 10y ago
Nope. Once you're big enough to start worrying about public company financial processes, your new CFO is going to buy Oracle Financials. This particular price change is all about customers moving away from old RISC systems and IBM and towards x86. Amazon dramatically overprices Intel cores, so Oracle wants to capture that value. Cheap licensing for x86 is subsidy for AWS and Azure. They are spiking the pricing to push you into Oracle/Sun hardware or the Oracle cloud offerings. "Hardware and Software Engineered together" isn't limited to technology engineering!