Reply to post: Re: license audit/support strong-arm tactics

Oracle co-honcho Mark Hurd can't wait to turn your $1 of IT support spend into $4 of pay-as-you-go cloud revenue

Thursday 2nd May 2019 06:35 GMT EricM

Re: license audit/support strong-arm tactics

Yes, just imagine having a company behaving like Oracle posessing all your data AND servers, giving them the power to take your whole company fully offline in case of a commercial dispute.

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