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How do you mean? Have they succeeded at squeezing any profit out of anything thats not Oracle DB?
by pm90 11mo ago
How do you mean? Have they succeeded at squeezing any profit out of anything thats not Oracle DB?
- lateforwork 11mo agoFusion ERP and NetSuite.
- skeeter2020 11mo agoprofit may be TBD, but they squeeze revenues out of everything and squeeze cost centers to oblivion
- jlarocco 11mo agoI meant they've always had a reputation for being ruthless business people. Charging license fees based on the amount of memory in the host machine instead of the VM running Oracle, and things like that. They nickle and dime everything. https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2025/Oracle-Announces-Fiscal-Year-2026-First-Quarter-Financial-Results/default.aspx https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2025/... They don't break it out into products in the results, but it looks like hardware, software, cloud, and support were all profitable.
- p4ul 11mo agoI agree with this, and I'd go even a bit further and describe them as predatory. They seem to have absolute contempt for their customers, and look for every possible opportunity to bleed them dry. But then again, I'm probably guilty of anthropomorphizing the lawnmower. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s