Is there any legitimate reason to choose Oracle?
Is Oracle's product actually that great, or at least better enough than the alternative that a remotely plausible case could be made for choosing them despite knowing their reputation for openly screwing their paying customers over and holding them to ransom once they have their claws in them?
Or is Oracle's business model effectively a (legal) extortion scam targeting gullible (and arrogant) managers with the product itself effectively an arbitrary MacGuffin? And was this ever *not* the case?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
