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Cheaper-than-Oracle Rimini defiant as Oracle drags 'em back to court
Oracle's long-running copyright case against independent support vendor Rimini Street is set to be heard before a jury in September, the database giant said on Tuesday. "There are no active settlement discussions between the parties," Larry Ellison & Co said in a statement. "Oracle seeks more than $200 million in damages and …
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Wednesday 8th July 2015 09:23 GMT AndyFl
Another reason not to use Oracle products
Since Oracle bought Sun there has been an ongoing increase in support costs and reduction on the availability of software updates etc. They have always been difficult to deal with on their over-priced database products.
Oracle are trying to get to the stage where anyone buying anything will have to go to them for everything and pay whatever Oricle feel like charging at the time. I'm kinda surprised they haven't banned customers from using non-Oracle provided CAT5 cables!
Fortunately there are other products available from other more enlightened suppliers, the problem is stopping managers from insisting on the purchase of Cisco and Oracle products in their organisation when other lower-cost and more flexible options exist.
Andy
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Wednesday 8th July 2015 10:44 GMT Michael Strorm
Re: Another reason not to use Oracle products
"Oracle are trying to get to the stage where anyone buying anything will have to go to them for everything and pay whatever Oricle feel like charging at the time."
Is this a surprise? Oracle's modus operandi has been "lock 'em in and gouge them for every penny they're worth" for as long as I can remember.
FWIW, I used to like Oracle when they did all that nice teletext stuff- I guess Larry Ellison got hard-edged and nasty after he lost the franchise to the Daily Mail. (No, not really).
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Sunday 12th July 2015 11:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Another reason not to use Oracle products
Yep, and that's a big problem in Government and quasi-Government. I have often joked with others that Oracle has either got the best corporate entertainment going or the best private eyes in the business as I can genuinely see no reason why someone would spring for their shit. They are truly worse than Microsoft and just utter thieving bastards. Not to mention whomever designed their DB software and installers clearly hates developers and other end users as I have rarely come across such pain in the arse software to use. God what horrendous shite. I dread every day I need to deal with the crap.
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Wednesday 8th July 2015 10:38 GMT Anonymous Coward
I guess "MSPainted" isn't a verb...
If I didn't already know that Larry Ellison wasn't actually a bewigged judge, I'd never have guessed that the accompanying image might have been Photoshopped (^_^)