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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by noonespecial on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:33PM (#9703697)
You don't pay Oracle for a database. You pay them for a kind of lawsuit insurance policy that just happens to come with a database.

It looks like they sell software but I think it closer to the truth to say that they are an insurance company.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by davidgerard on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:54AM (#9704397)
Straddling the fine line between "insurance company" and "protection racket".
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