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Re:Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison by chris_wot on Saturday November 05, 2016 @01:23PM (#12880742)
Really? I sure as hell can fault them - getting them to even acknowledge bugs is a gigantic PITA. Unless you are huge, getting their support people to respond or even understand issues is impossible. The CBO is a gigantic black box and can be incredibly hard to troubleshoot.

They have a CSO who has publicly stated they don't want bug reports or anyone to give them security exploits, and who once gave a talk "How Joshua DoSed Jericho: Cybersecrets of the Bible". [1]

There's plenty more to make you stay away from them at all costs, not the least of which are completely unethical business practices.

1. https://www.rsaconference.com/videos/how-joshua-dosed-jerich...

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Re:Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison by hodgesrm on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:43PM (#12882538)
Fair point on support and security. Mary Ann Davidson's rant about security on the Oracle blog was indefensible. [1]

While I'm impressed by some of the Oracle engineering there's no question they also know how to squeeze customers just up to the breaking point.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/08/oracle-deletes-csos-screed-hac...

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