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And the GP was giving his honest opinion. An opinion that is held by many people I've interacted with in the open source community regarding Oracle. Maybe ins

And the GP was giving his honest opinion. An opinion that is held by many people I've interacted with in the open source community regarding Oracle. Maybe instead of browbeating him over it you could consider encouraging Oracle to pay attention to things like this and do something about recovering their image. BTW, it isn't illegal in any jurisdiction I am aware of to harbor personal feelings towards brands and companies. That's what marketing is all about anyway.

skorgu 14y ago
For a large segment of us (presumably the target market) there's no point in Oracle trying to recover their image. Based on direct personal experience I will fight tooth and nail against giving Oracle one red cent or one idle second. I can't think of anything they could do in the short or medium term that would change my mind so why waste time trying? Buying purchasing managers steak dinners and lapdances has a much better return on investment.
bdunbar 14y ago
And the GP was giving his honest opinion I was giving my honest opinion of his honest opinion. An opinion that is held by many people These people have a weak grasp of the concept of 'evil'. In my opinion. Maybe instead of browbeating I wasn't doing that. My opinion. You could consider encouraging Oracle I'm nobody Oracle is going to listen to. I say this as a guy who has been dealing with Oracle for about a decade, supported database and application servers. Oracle pays attention to guys that write checks. And not just any checks but big checks. If the CIO of (say) AT&T brings this up with his sales rep, things will happen. Me .. not so much. BTW, it isn't illegal I believe you are reading things that I did not write.