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Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? - Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed (www.theregister.com)

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Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? - Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed::Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think it's basically tech Scientology at this point

People get indoctrinated as oracle people and then they go around actively advocating for it to other easily manipulated people that don't know better and take as much money as possible from them.

Oh yeah and they sue ｅｖｅｒｙｏｎｅ

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago

Them and IBM. Everything IBM touches turns to shit. They are still hawking mainframes to poor saps that'll fork over the money on them.