What actually is "outrageous" about those rates is what will ends up in the pocket of the poor sob who will be doing all the work... because it won't be an actu

What actually is "outrageous" about those rates is what will ends up in the pocket of the poor sob who will be doing all the work... because it won't be an actual Oracle employee but very likely just some small contractor. I used to be a consultant working for a contractor for Sun (all big names in consulting do this, however. saves their hr costs) and Sun charged the customer about what you see on that card; the company I was working for, however, would end up getting about or less than half of that. All Sun was actually doing was providing a "project manager" I never saw and I didn't get remotely the kind of information and access to information that actual Sun techs would get and have. So ultimately they just sold their "good name" and passed on the work and kept the lion's share and when one of the projects went south (nobody effectively got the customer under control), they made sure all their contracts were water-tight and passed all the blame right down to us and we had to pay them back. Consulting is dirty, dirty business and you'll be swimming with sharks much, much bigger than you when working for the average small, highly effective and flexible IT company. And yes, you will sell your soul more often than you shall like.