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Re:Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving fo... by ignoramous on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:31PM (#25432526)
> I actually think zombie corporations like Oracle, companies that haven’t innovated in decades and instead rely on an army of sales people to sell legacy software.

Those army of sales people are probably now selling you the latest and greatest in vendor lock-in on behalf of AWS [0] and GCP [1]. There is no escaping the sales army :)

[0] https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/aws-takes-aim-at-oracle-by-hi...

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/04/09/google-c...

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Re:Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving fo... by verelo on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:41PM (#25432654)
Are you suggesting Oracle wasn't a vendor lock in ploy from the start? I feel like they've just gone from one vendor lock-in to another.
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Re:Silicon Valley exodus: Bay Area tech companies leaving fo... by ignoramous on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @08:29AM (#25442242)
I was suggesting that AWS is probably the new Oracle.
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