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		noonespecial on June 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Softwa... You don't pay Oracle for a database. You pay them for a kind of lawsuit insurance policy that just happens to come with a database. It looks like they sell software but I think it closer to the truth to say that they are an insurance company.

davidgerard on June 12, 2015 [–]

Straddling the fine line between "insurance company" and "protection racket".

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