Not an Oracle user? You're probably in an Oracle database anyway

You might have nothing to do with Oracle's databases, but you're probably in one: Big Red has announced it's selling a database of 400 million business profiles. Big Red calls this the “Oracle Data Cloud B2B audience solution” and labels it a “Data as a Service (DaaS) solution”. Oracle's fronting for other data-harvesters so …

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank {pick one or more} that I've loved to present wildly differing profiles over the years. Have fun guys on that data scrub!

[Terafirma-NZ]

Salesforce

So that's why they bought Salesforce so they could mine everyone's data then sell it back to them to enter back into the database.

[Timmay]

Re: Salesforce

They haven't bought Salesforce.

[The Original Steve]

I rarely use chain coffee shops but popped into a Starbucks today and noticed "Micros" PoS kit - even had "ORACLE" displayed on the Chip and Pin LCD display. Assume that'll be all Starbucks transactions included in this dataset then...

[Anonymous Coward]

I was wondering that too... where are they getting this data? Is this just publishing some generic CRM database, like a bunch of companies do... all of it being outdated... or are they actually harvesting data from companies that use Oracle? I assume the former.