https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oracles-aggressive-sales-tactics-are-backfiring-with-customers
Oddly enough, Oracle customers don't like being threatened and treated list sh-- - particularly when they have a choice.
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It didn't with me.
Just feed it any email address, it's not a proper registration.
What are you talking about, if you put in an email address then it wants $399/year and a credit card payment.
Customers don't drag and drop, they replatform. If you are going to replatform, there are a lot of better alternatives out there.
"You can't "drag and drop" most applications into the cloud."
This is exactly what Oracle is banking on -- that business application and database customers are largely stuck because it is difficult and expensive to disconnect from the legacy systems. So Oracle has been able to screw over customers through its business and legal practices. Now they are counting on being able to hold on to at least part of their customers by making Oracle "Cloud" The only place that SaaS applications are available and by manipulation their database licensing to make other Clouds more expensive to run on.
I don't know of any customer that is pleased with Oracle -- either they tolerate the mistreatment per they are actively planning their strategy to get off of Oracle. I know of customers who will spend tens of millions in the next couple of years to happily unplug Oracle's apps and go with a competitor. I know of others who are shifting all the databases they can to other options. However, as a whole, Oracle had enough customers that they can continue to survive for quite some time if they manage costs well. And that is why this forum is so popular -- Oracle is currently all about squeezing out cost (e.g. screwing over employees) so that the company can survive and continue to feed massive paychecks to those at the top of the organization.
This is a serious miscalculation. You can't "drag and drop" most applications into the cloud. THis goes double for older apps living on bare metal. This means most services will require a total fresh install and possibly a rewrite. This very expensive. This also means you can cut to any platform you want to make this happen, you are no longer bound to any single platform or vendor.
Just feed it any email address, it's not a proper registration.
I'm not a subscriber. Maybe you good paste in some highlights from the article?