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That people continue to use ORACLE products is one of those misteries I can not understand for much thought that I put into it.
That has to be breach of contract. The guy was a paying customer and never missed a payment. I highly suspect this is caused by a bug.
That people continue to use ORACLE products is one of those misteries I can not understand for much thought that I put into it.
I use one of these servers for hosting some non-critical things, but nothing that I run there is particularly CPU intensive, so I was just forced to set up a cronjob that periodically spikes the CPU to 100% for a few minutes.
[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
That people continue to use ORACLE products is one of those misteries I can not understand for much thought that I put into it.
I signed up a personal Oracle Cloud account to make use of their always-free tier of VMs. I was lucky to be able to get 4 of the VM.Standard.A1.Flex instances which have been running fine for a couple of years now. I've heard various tales of people on the free tier getting instances/accounts deleted for having idle instances, but presumably my backup of them is enough to stop them from being registered as idle (I've got a couple of websites running on them too, but they're just for my use).
That people continue to use ORACLE products is one of those misteries I can not understand for much thought that I put into it.
Oracle know this, in fact, they rely on it.
If they are trying to win a big corporate contract you know a good way to get it? :
The dude who has an enormous amount of say is head of I.T. at EnormousBeanFactory, the world’s largest supplier of canned beans. Is it a sexy industry? Nope, but they do 3 billion a year in beans.
This dude is in his mid 50s, bald, out of shape, big glasses, and is likely very single. He has a comfortable wage but he’s not rich. He hasn’t gotten laid in 20 years.
Send in the energetic and charismatic Oracle salesman, instantly invite this guy for all expenses trip to Aspen to discuss the deal, but don’t make it obvious, a few 5 star lunches locally first. When in Aspen make sure this guy has the time of his life, got it? Here’s 20k expense account, this guy is going to have a weekend he is not going to forget. Do I need to spell out the details for you?
Once he’s back at his job and had a few days to recover then land the fish while the memories are still fresh, as long as your product MINIMALLY functions, they’ll sign.
Of course I personally think this is atrocious way of doing business, but I am wise enough to not let my rosy ideals prevent me from seeing the reality of the world, so there it is. That’s why “people continue to use ORACLE” products.
That has to be breach of contract. The guy was a paying customer and never missed a payment. I highly suspect this is caused by a bug.
If it was caused by a bug they wouldn't have told him "you have no future with oracle" and that he couldn't create a new account -- they would have just created a new account, apologized, and given him a few months credit.
That people continue to use ORACLE products is one of those misteries I can not understand for much thought that I put into it.
I initially escalated to support. Similar thing - they said there was nothing they could do, and that I needed to cut a ticket to another team... one which I couldn't contact. They simply closed the ticket.
I did a chargeback for that portion of my bill. TBD whether they will nuke my account or not.
OP is suggesting it is in retaliation for a criticizing viral post... https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930176963645558
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930295586771514
and a longer explanation of his thoughts (mostly that Oracle has left him in the dark so all he can offer is conspiratorial speculation)
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930279621469673
Anyway, since Oracle won't say, it seems fine to take adverse inference.
That people continue to use ORACLE products is one of those misteries I can not understand for much thought that I put into it.
People probably continue to use Oracle products because Oracle makes a lot of good and useful products. Oracle is typically not criticized for its products, its criticized for its high prices and price increases.