Oracle: Oregon's attorney general leaked our confidential memos in health portal row

OR AG should be prosecuted and sent to prison

How incompetent can elected or appointed politicians be? Is the OR AG related to the MI governor who told Flint, MI residents their water was perfectly fine while people were being poisoned and dying?

Well, I guess we know the userid's of two shills

Maybe Oracle's company motto should be "Subtle as a Russian".

State of Oregon. Obamacare. And ... Oracle.

Is there any chance, any chance at ALL, of a gingham dog, calico cat, and velveteen rabbit scenario?

And is there anything, anything at ALL, that mortals can do to increase that chance?

Wow -- whose word to trust?

Local state government in Oregon, or huge multinational software giant and, among other things, curator of Java?

I mean, this is Oracle. They are perfection in coding and pristine in honesty, right?

"Oracle bungled the security updates of its Java SE software so badly it must publish a groveling letter prominently on its website for the next two years." -- El Reg, 22 Dec 2015.

And back in 2013:

Krebs: "Faced with an onslaught of malware attacks that leverage vulnerabilities and design weaknesses in Java, Oracle Corp. recently tweaked things so that Java now warns users about the security risks of running Java content. But new research suggests that the integrity and accuracy of these warning messages can be subverted easily..."

And not just Java... "Montclair State University is suing Oracle over an allegedly botched ERP (enterprise resource planning) software project, saying a series of missteps and delays could ultimately cost the school some US$20 million more than originally planned, according to a complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey." (Montclair "accused Oracle of breach of contract, gross negligence, willful misconduct and fraud.")

Oracle responded that the project failure was all the fault of the University.

Sure it was.

Clearly Oracle can only be utterly blameless in the Oregon brouhaha, for they are pure and true and never ever forked up even a little bit on any project ever. And they never deceived anyone whilst doing so, either.

Public money?

Then public knowledge.

Fuck off Oracle.

Six of on half a dozen of the other

This is just symptomatic of the relations between customers and any major IT company, with management and money at the root of it all. Any bets that both sides hired contractors to advise and implement because they didn't want to retain in house skills that might not be fully utilized, and said contractors were mostly more interested in the length of their assignment than delivery quality.

Yep, the lawyers will win from this, and so will the contractors, they've been paid, everyone else will loose.

Isn't it ALWAYS Oracle or SAP...

in some brouhaha about a failed rollout of some healthcare or other big data scenario?

How many times do governments the world over have to hear the same players and the same lame excuses before they wake up and stop selecting vendors who will never accomplish anything besides lining their own pockets at our expense?

If I read the article correctly the paper didn't quote the alleged documents but just said that they exist because it had seen them. It could, of course, have been merely speculating. Oracle's reaction seems to confirm that they do exist.