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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by Spooky23 on Saturday April 02, 2016 @04:30PM (#11413270)
Oracle doesn't care what you think at all, good or bad. If you hate them, they undermine you by making you sound like a bumpkin. If you love them, they undermine you by using you as a spy.

They influence your CEO/CIO/board/governor/mayor/general/owner/investor. A few years back, they convinced some dope in the State of California to buy a named user license for every resident of the state.

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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by tominous on Saturday April 02, 2016 @10:07PM (#11414591)
That makes no sense. With about 40 million residents, the government of California would need to have approximately 1.6 million CPU cores dedicated to Oracle before named-user worked out cheaper than per-core licensing. Either that or there's a special deal unrelated to Oracle's normal licensing price list, in which case who cares what the licensing metric is?
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Re:Head of Oracle Linux Moves to Microsoft by robterrell on Saturday April 02, 2016 @08:34PM (#11414297)
More info please. I'm a resident of CA. I have a named Oracle seat paid for by the state? How do I get my login credentials???
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