To beat Oracle, find jurors who care about Leisure Suit Larry not Larry Ellison

When you kick a giant in the shins and threaten to cut it off at the knees, do it in a jurisdiction you believe will provide you with a sympathetic jury. That's the strategy advised by Seth Ravin, founder and CEO of third-party application support outfit Rimini Street. The ten year-old company is an irritant to Oracle and SAP …

[Anonymous Coward]

Oracle

A radical proposal to kill off Rimini Street:

How about being better at support, and doing it a reasonable price!

[Tom 13]

Re: Oracle

Not a chance. Those maintenance agreements are a one way street to but lots and lots of Benjamins in Larry's bank account. Actual customer support? They've never heard of it.

[Gordon 10]

Hang a sec

Wasn't this where Rimini claimed that they could use their Customers Oracle licenses instead of their own?

Serves them right afaik. Never try to use a companies own license against them. Especially when the have a metric f?cktun of lawyers on standby.

Oracle have never subscribed to the big fleas have little fleas view of the world.

[Tim99]

I've posted this before

I have written stuff that uses Oracle going back to version 4. A truth that should be repeated:-

Q. What do you call Oracle customers?

A. Hostages.