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I'm not worried about or bothered by audits. We put a lot of effort into license compliance and performing regular true ups with our vendors is the norm. A lar
by commandar 4y ago
I'm not worried about or bothered by audits. We put a lot of effort into license compliance and performing regular true ups with our vendors is the norm.
A large part of Oracle's bad reputation comes from a history of entering markets, gaining a captive customer base, and then engaging in blatant rent-seeking that squeezes every last penny that they can out of their customers.
As a direct example, I'm in the healthcare space and specifically work in a Cerner shop. Our quotes from Cerner for routine integration projects have gone up literally 5-10x since Oracle acquired them. An EHR migration costs well into eight figures, so Oracle is fully aware that customers aren't easily going to be able to move away from them because things that were $15-30K (and still are with other vendors) are now running into the six figures, but it certainly doesn't leave a positive taste in the mouth.
And we knew this was coming as soon as the Oracle acquisition was announced. Because Oracle has built a reputation for doing exactly this across multiple markets over multiple decades.