Oracle is claiming victory in a case of alleged grey market trading against a US business that sells network, software and services management support to the enterprise. ServiceKey and its CEO Angela Vines inked a settlement deal with Larry's lot at the end of last month. The lawsuit was filed by Oracle in February 2012, with …

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Wednesday 19th June 2013 15:43 GMT Kevin McMurtrie

And so commences the death of Oracle. "It's too hard to get support for it," businesses will say.

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1. Wednesday 19th June 2013 16:41 GMT FuzzyTheBear
  
  Add to that " It's way too expensive. " But rejoyce , all Oracle users say it's only a matter of time , anything written Oracle has became way too expensive ..
  
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  1. Wednesday 19th June 2013 16:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    You forgot "Its a bug ridden bloated pile of crap"
    
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Wednesday 19th June 2013 15:47 GMT ducatis'r us

Rimini Street

And the ongoing spat with Rimini Street??

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Wednesday 19th June 2013 22:16 GMT M Gale

Turn that bloody autoplaying HP advert off right now before I put Adblock Plus on again.

That is all.

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1. Wednesday 19th June 2013 22:44 GMT beep54
  
  Adblock
  
  Can even imagine why you took it off in the first place.
  
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  1. Wednesday 19th June 2013 22:45 GMT beep54
    
    Re: Adblock
    
    Can't. Sorry. This place really needs to allowing post editing.
    
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    1. Wednesday 19th June 2013 23:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
      
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      There's now an advert for 'Office 365` and "Watch what Newham Council Did"
      
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Wednesday 19th June 2013 23:09 GMT Anonymous Coward

Authorised Oracle ..

"The lawsuit was filed by Oracle in February 2012, with the software giant accusing the managed service provider of distributing proprietary software and support that it was not authorised to sell to customers including the US Navy and the US Food and Drug Administration."

Isn't this precisely what Oracle is doing with Red Hat, stripping out the copyrights, re-branding it as Oracle Linux and selling `support contracts'.

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1. Thursday 20th June 2013 13:01 GMT Tom 13
  
  Re: Authorised Oracle ..
  
  Probably. But Red Hat are required to release their OSS whereas the same does not apply to Oracle's proprietary code.
  
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Friday 28th June 2013 12:47 GMT cmaurand

Good news for Microsoft

If I were Vines, I'd start flogging SQL Server and Great Plains. Say fine to Oracle and start moving my customers. I'd start finding ways to migrate customers away from Oracle which has to be the most over priced software I've ever come across.

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