Hah. Good catch. I guess it explains why he thinks "Sometimes you gotta spend money to make money..." makes sense with web app databases. A more honest way of putting that would be "Sometimes you gotta spend money for me to make money charging you to support black box bloatware..."

Astroturfed.

Good grief.

I feel cheap and used, like a $3 whore.

Or a $3 piece of carpet. Or anything else that only costs $3.

... $3 which would buy about 5/8 gallon of jet fuel for Larry Ellison's Gulfstream V, which, if I had wanted to help pay for, I would have used Oracle on something.

appreciate the comment earlier. some of the more constructive feedback

..after the heart attack inducing story about GDrive, I'm now close to having another one in laughter from this posting...

haha, yeah i do, i'm a middleware guy though. The question is nothing to do with the company i work for.. honest! :)