Managed to find this article mentioned in another thread without paywall blocking it and I thought other people would like to read it as well. It's well worth a few minutes of your time.
https://www.lightreading.com/enterprise-cloud/applications/are-oracles-aggressive-sales-tactics-backfiring/d/d-id/743295
Thanks for posting, very good article, word is getting around.
Love this BS:
Oracle responded to the article in an email to Light Reading: "Oracle, like virtually every other software company, conducts software audits in limited circumstances to ensure that our products are used as licensed. We pride ourselves in providing our existing 400,000 customers a variety of options to move to the cloud when they are ready. Oracle is grateful to its large and growing customers base and has no reason to resort to scare tactics to solicit business. We are disappointed that The Information is presenting inaccurate accounts regarding a handful of customers, based on anonymous sources or competitors who seek to enhance their own consulting services."
About that list of failed companies. Sun Microsystems, DEC, Wang all fell due to the inflexible group think of leadership along with, in the case of Wang and Sun, a complete failure of management succession. Prime bought CV, couldn’t keep up with the changes in computing and was eventually sold to a company started by a former CV employee. History won’t be kind to Oracle either.
I've never heard of an Oracle audit that didn't reveal the need for a multi million dollar payment -- many times into the tens of millions. Given that Oracle is the one performing the audit, it makes one wonder.
I've heard sales managers and VPs say that they haven't received enough sales revenue from a customer, so they were going to have them audited. One sales person was using all customers in the territory audited as a plan to hit quota.
Oracle's strategy to squeeze customers and employees in order to keep margins up can only go so far.
WHy are these companies. once successful think they are invincible? It seems that once they do, they take a hit they can't recover from. It happened to Sun Microsystems, DEC, Prime, ComputerVision, Wang Labs. Those are the ones I can think of right now. There are plenty more. It happens everytime they think they are bulletproof.