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What does Oracle actually do? Take other businesses' data hostage for profit | Good Work [11:47] (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 50 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

Techs like to deride sales and managers for incompetence. But Oracle is proof that salesmanship and suits can take garbage and make billions.

I remember around 1990 when Oracle handled their tech problems by making it illegal to review their product. ( You had to purchase their product to use it or be sued. And the purchase agreement required that you not publish a review of the product without their approval or be sued.)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I would argue that selling a product that engineers need to create and maintain at great cost to the company (both monetary and in terms of frustration etc) and customer relations is in fact incompetence.

    or at least that's how I see if from my own dealings with the sales guy at work. "okay yes I see you have an idea, but can we nail down a product definition, describe where we add value, and identify how it is different than these two other globally established products on the market right now?" nope, all he could do was be a little bitch about it. apparently he had customers lined up, though.

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