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This is wildly off-topic, but I don't understand how Oracle still makes money. Who are their customers? What are they selling to them and what's their comparati
by Pandabob 7y ago
This is wildly off-topic, but I don't understand how Oracle still makes money. Who are their customers? What are they selling to them and what's their comparative advantage? Do they make money off of MySQL? Java? Are they selling services? I don't get how they're still in business.
- syshum 7y agoI know many companies that just sent them 5-6 Figure checks to license JRE.... They also have Lots of Med to Large organizations using a number of their products, a lot of them are Oracle customers simply because they were using products that oracle acquired and since they are now entrenched into the business process it is easier to keep paying Oracle than extract those products with alternatives
- Pandabob 7y agoInteresting. I wonder how threatened Oracle's business is by the big cloud providers, Amazon and Microsoft specifically? I guess not enough to reflect it on the stock price.
- PedroBatista 7y agoPretty much every medium to big government entity and private corporation or bank runs some sort of Oracle DB or software with foggy ROI. Their customers are on the business of not losing what they already have, so a couple million here and there is not a big deal.