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Oracle is well known for putting out an extremely expensive product that competitors implement better. It boggles my mind anyone chooses them rather than doing their best to put as many miles between them and the Oralce rep as possible.
I think it's basically tech Scientology at this point
People get indoctrinated as oracle people and then they go around actively advocating for it to other easily manipulated people that don't know better and take as much money as possible from them.
Oh yeah and they sue ｅｖｅｒｙｏｎｅ
Them and IBM. Everything IBM touches turns to shit. They are still hawking mainframes to poor saps that'll fork over the money on them.
👀 - Australian Government
There's multiple companies that run this "database with a barely usable UI" as a service model, and they're all somehow huge. They all get into the customers with some sort of sales blitz by promising the world, and then by the time you go to implement everything requires millions of dollars worth of customization. Then they wind up referring you to their "gold partners" who only charge you a half million to implement the two screens or whatever you need.
There's SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, and I'm sure more.
Why do people buy this garbage?
Inertia. Is. A. Bitch.
Early mover advantage, and understanding how the public sector works....that is to say slowly. You sell a 10-year contract and it's going to take them that long to train a user. Public sector employees don't get enough exposure to technology and just try to survive learning how to use the awful tools they're given, which is long outdated. The pain points creates a negative reinforcement to change, use and process improvement, all which could drive adoption of new software.
Much like Apple, I despise Oracle but you have to acknowledge the absolute corner they have on lucrative, long-term sucker organizations. A 20-year-old with a few friends and a few months could create something more usable than PeopleSoft.