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atonse on July 30, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Our $100M Series B

Isn’t the main issue with Oracle the aggressive sales and exploitation of captive customers?

Sparkle-san on July 30, 2025 | [–]

They don't call oracle "a law firm with a software division" for no reason.

calvinmorrison on July 30, 2025 | [–]

I'd assume oracles main issue is that personal-computers-on-steroids as servers mostly won, and we don't all need AS/400 or mainframe architectures. 99% of problems can be solved with practically commodity hardware and software.

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