Most of Oracle's shareholders are employees or former ones, and they tend not to tell Larry what to do or not. The problem I see is how Oracle treats its stakeholders - the DBAs, techies, developers, and other fans who have supported The Good Database for so many years. Is the new Support model any way to treat your friends? ;-).
It might be market driven, but there are flaws in the mechanism. I think if Larry really asked his shareholders what kind of future they see for the company he might be in for a surprise.
If the Politburo thing (complete with the dream of one centralised body having ALL data required to make informed dedicsions) didn't work in Mladen's former country, why do we think it'll work for global companies? Just because they now have faster computers?
Mogens
Freeman Robert - IL wrote:
With respect to all of you out there... I hear so many complaints about greedy Oracle, and about having to take a class to get certified and the dollar cost of that. I remind you folks that Oracle is a for profit venture. It's not Oracle's responsibility to make anything affordable. It's the responsibility of Oracle to generate revenue, it is the expectation of Oracle shareholders (of which I am one) that Oracle will do such a thing. I don't care if Larry is the 6th richest guy in the universe, so what? Why does that compel him to give you anything?
It's all pure market driven. If people stop signing up for classes or OCP
exams, Oracle will in quick fashion figure out why and change things. If
people keep signing up for classes and taking the OCP, then viola, they have
hit the sweet spot and will generate some revenue too.
Socialism doesn't work folks, let's face it. If the OCP Masters credentials are worth the money, then spend it. If they are not, don't spend it. If enough people don't spend the money, then something will happen. Thats how a market driven economy works.
RF
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