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Re:Oracle’s Cloudy Future by nickpsecurity on Thursday September 22, 2016 @12:21PM (#12557935)
Don't forget the original reason: backward compatibility with complicated, mission-critical software on weird hardware nobody can legally clone. These businesses would have to port all their stuff to avoid IBM. They probably don't even know what it does. So, they stick with them to mitigate that risk.
Re:Oracle’s Cloudy Future by scholia on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:26PM (#12559524)
Plus, the time to transition off it is far longer than the next quarterly results. It may well be longer than the expected tenure of the CEO....
Re:Oracle’s Cloudy Future by nickpsecurity on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:42PM (#12561269)
Great point. They are short-term focused most of the time.