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Oh come on snowflake isn’t cheap but there are none of the license auditing nonsense. (Also aren’t oracle the oracle of the cloud?)
by ed_elliott_asc 3y ago
Oh come on snowflake isn’t cheap but there are none of the license auditing nonsense.
(Also aren’t oracle the oracle of the cloud?)
- tcoff91 3y agoOracle is so far beyond anyone other major player in crookedness that it's not even funny. Oh, you happened to run your oracle database in a VM and got audited? They'll try to shake you down to pay for however many oracle licenses for every other box you are running hypervisors on, because they claim that you could have transferred the database to any of those other boxes. So if you have a datacenter with 1000 boxes running VMWare, and you ran Oracle on one of them, they try to shake you down for paying for not buying 1000 licenses. Then they say but if you just buy a bunch of cloud credits, we can make your 1000x license violation go away.
- gabereiser 3y agoOr buy our database server appliance to install in the racks next to your VMWare cluster for millions.
- tcoff91 3y agoDo they seriously charge in the millions for a server to run a database? A single box? Fucking oracle man.
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoWhat I mean by that is that SF have a technically superior product, were first to identify the market and scaled with it, and their pricing model is designed to get you spending more. People loved Oracle's technology back in the day (or so I understand it, I was like 2 when they released the first one).