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dewitt said "Oracle has used exactly this business model to great success, and obscene profit, for over 30 years". You claim that business models are abstract.
by joseph_cooney 13y ago
dewitt said "Oracle has used exactly this business model to great success, and obscene profit, for over 30 years". You claim that business models are abstract. Perhaps, except in the case where the words "exact" are used, and a specific company is named. I, like SeoxyS find the paradox of Oracle being accused of helping businesses to be "me-too" copies of Google - a company half of Oracle's age - amusing.
- dvse 13y agoThe model in question is "convince small and medium businesses that they need to buy my software in order to do things the same way as large companies X and Y and have a hope of remaining competitive". For Oracle X and Y were banks, retail and logistics companies, for the new generation of "big data" vendors it is Google and Facebook.
- joseph_cooney 13y agoBut the poster in question didn't say "X" and "Y" did they...this feels like an exercise in pedantry now, but he really did say "exactly" and "google".
- coldtea 13y agoOk, here's some "conversational language" insight: He said: "Exactly this business model" -- that is, as it pertains to it's essence. NOT to be read as: "Exactly this business model as it pertains to inconsequential details, like which big company they should be imitating".