gives me some solace to know others find themselves in this position. I remember nearly two years ago, i found some Oracle market brochures directed to BI 'solu

gives me some solace to know others find themselves in this position. I remember nearly two years ago, i found some Oracle market brochures directed to BI 'solutions'--courtesy of an Oracle sales rep who sat next to CTO on a 12-hour business class flight--on my desk with a stick note from our CTO "please review, then let's chat". As ordered, i diligently read each pretentious little piece of trivia in the pile, then asked him what specific functionality the Oracle stack offered that our open-source stack did not. He said "360 view of the customer", which i had just read about a dozen times.