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There was an article in The Register a couple weeks ago about a pension fund suing Oracle over their excessive cloud hype, and what sounds like outright threats
by cmiles74 8y ago
There was an article in The Register a couple weeks ago about a pension fund suing Oracle over their excessive cloud hype, and what sounds like outright threats to punish customers who don't try it out. From the piece:
The complaint alleged Oracle has been coercing customers to adopt its cloud services, to inflate revenue and hide market disinterest.
"In truth, Oracle drove sales of cloud products using threats and extortive tactics," the complaint, filed on Friday, stated. "The use of such tactics concealed the lack of real demand for Oracle’s cloud services, making the growth unsustainable (and ultimately driving away customers)."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/13/oracle_sued_cloud_numbers/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/13/oracle_sued_cloud_n...
- krylon 8y agoI read something similar on a German IT news site a while back. It claimed that Oracle's sales people pressured customers into buying cloud services, and if the customers did not "comply", they were threatened with a license audit that apparently included suspending the customers' licenses until the audit was completed. And if your ERP system is supplied by Oracle, or the database your ERP system runs on (or your financial accounting package), that means you can basically shut down your company until the audit is complete.
- Murdodc089 8y agoThat's when you go along with their demands for just as long as it takes to get completely off their products/systems all together.
- sangnoir 8y ago...and the Oracle sales folk won't care - as long as they meet their (current) targets. Be very careful about the behaviors you incentivize.