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California + Oracle = $95 Million Fiasco
bahtama writes: "The Sacramento Bee is reporting that California apparently signed an agreement to purchase 95 million dollars worth of Oracle software that they really didn't need and that will not save them as much money as promised. They apparently purchased 270,000 licenses, which is more than all the state workers, including prison guards and others who would never need it." How do you think Oracle would treat the whole country?
No way. When did this start?
Sounds to me as if the Oracle brass have been having lunch with the guys at Lockheed-Martin.....
Where did Oracle trained their salesmen?? I need that kind of sales talent on my company. Do you think they would be interested in switching companies?
Maybe everybody issued a national ID card, or scanned by facial recognition technology, will require a license from Oracle before they can be tracked?
... to make up for all those millions and millions the BSA claims are lost to piracy. He was just buying licenses for them.
Watch the Teaser Trailer for "The Lightning Thief" Her
...if you get pulled over in california:
"May I see your driver's license, proof of insurance, and your Oracle seat license please"
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..Where Amy went car shopping at that "Malfunctioning Eddies" or wherever; and upon being sold a car (after haggling for it at a HIGHER price), the owner-robot exploded?
Why do I get the impression that there's quite a few Oracle employees who just exploded; and that California is going to be mightily pissed when they find that their new Oracle Software isn't going to come with quite as much Eagle as the salesmen promised...
After reading the article, I get the scary feeling that the voices in my head that tell me to do things are getting into my computer too.
"DOIT was set up to try to steer the state clear of contracting disasters,"
"DOIT ignored these signs," the audit says.
A spokesman for Elias Cortez, the state's chief information officer and the head of DOIT,
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I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
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All of this is meaningless, since within a years time California won't have any electricity!
Governments have a history of wasting our taxes, if they didn't waste that money on Oracle licenses they would've wasted it on other stupid things.
>It has to track every step you make...sexual life actions
i doubt the slashdot audience has much to be concerned with on that front.
... City of Largo, FL obtains more Linux licenses than it needs!!!! Mistake costs them.... um, nothing.
Miko O'Sullivan
He added, "This is a mess. And it's not one we need to sweep under the rug."
And what kinds of messes DO we sweep under the rug?
42 - So long and thanks for all the fish.
It was probably a audit done by Arthur Anderson.
Except maybe Bill Gates, who would rock back and forth and explain why they should actually pay 6x.
I'd have been happy to set them up with PostgreSQL for $45 million.
Oh, what the heck. I'm bigger than that.
Guys --- if you manage to get yourself out of that Oracle boondoggle, I'll still be glad to get you PostgreSQL for $45 million.
I am such an old softie.
Sun is the dot in dot.bomb.
And because of it there's probably more volume in Sun equipment on eBay than being shipped from the company itself anymore.