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Because Oracle comes to any country/industry with trucks of money to corrupt officials and lobby their adoption. And after a few years you find yourself in a s
by selivanovp 1y ago
Because Oracle comes to any country/industry with trucks of money to corrupt officials and lobby their adoption.
And after a few years you find yourself in a situation when you already paid for Oracle so much, integrated it so deeply, so switching to any alternative is a massive pain and in most cases it’s safer and easier to keep paying Oracle.
- goodpoint 1y agoThey also corrupt management in the companies buying their products. Same with two other very big software vendor.
- netdevphoenix 1y agoI believe this is how they grew and how they remain big. While smaller companies aim for managers, Oracle targets CTOs and CEOs, takes them out for expensive dinners and promises them the world. Then, they legacy handcuffed them forever. And virtually no one chooses to invest crazy amounts of money on migrating or even starting a new codebase when your company lifeblood has been poured into the Faustian Oracle machinery.
- 1718627440 1y agoAre managers really not doing background checks about company behaviour before signing a contract?
- netdevphoenix 1y agoThe ones targeted by Oracle salespeople don't. And when they do, it's too late. And most just hope things "will work out". I was third party witness to one of these transformations and I correctly predicted the chaos, uncertainty and sense of powerlessness that it would cause