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It feels like enough people know about their tactics that it must hurt their adoption. Can you imagine a YCombinator startup using Oracle?
by tonyedgecombe 1y ago
It feels like enough people know about their tactics that it must hurt their adoption. Can you imagine a YCombinator startup using Oracle?
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoThe primary product of these enshitified companies is a perpetually rising stock price. Beyond a certain size it becomes more profitable to play bureaucratic, legal, financial, and other corporate games at the expense of the nominal service that's being sold. They're a bizarre economic phenomenon. They basically sell casino chips (stocks) and use bureaucracy (friction and complexity), PR (lies), and intimidation to goose their value.
- thayne 1y agoIt absolutely does. I've never met anyone with a positive opinion of Oracle, and I know many companies avoid dealing with Oracle. I think this strategy only works if you have enough marketshare and vendor lock-in that customers can't easily leave and you have enough money that you can get new customers by acquiring other companies.