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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by rodgerd on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:10PM (#9703620)
> Seems like once you work there you're part of the forever cult of Ellison.

Not just working at Oracle. Once Oracle bought Sun our Oracle DBAs started relentlessly agitating for us to buy SPARC servers because they were now the best, obviously, and a failure to use them meant we clearly were doing it wrong.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by chrismarlow9 on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:38PM (#9708085)
I can understand why. They specialize in a very niche product and their entire worth to the tech industry is based on the adoption of that product. I get it, but I dont like it.
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