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This is the HN bubble speaking. "Tech companies" represent a very small fraction of the economy, and even a very small fraction of companies that have programme

This is the HN bubble speaking. "Tech companies" represent a very small fraction of the economy, and even a very small fraction of companies that have programmers who write code and need databases. And that's before we get into the fact that Oracle is not just a database company. They have a bunch of other products targeted at many different industries and applications, such as project management, ERP, procurement, etc. Oracle wants to be the one-stop shop for technology needed by any of the many, many legacy industries that aren't tech, and in many industries they succeed at that.

x0x0 2y ago
It's really amazing to watch, plus the delusion that it's ctos being tricked or something. take Opera. You buy it to run eg an amusement park or a casino or chain of hotels. That's a relatively complex thing to do, and not something that amusement parks or hotels are capable of building out a team of devs to build themselves. The list of things that are table stakes would run $10-$20m of devtime for a decade to build out. Bookings (both individual, block for events, and syncs w/ expedia or others) / payments / loyalty + customer relationship management / etc.