Oracle Investigation Grows

VValdo writes "Department heads resigning, millions of dollars wasted, documents shredded, the government investigating. No, it's not Enron-- as previously reported, the $95 million contract with Oracle is blowing into a full-fledged scandal in California, according to today's LA Times, The article begins, "California Highway Patrol officers moved in Thursday to halt shredding at the state's information technology department, and Gov. Gray Davis suspended the agency's chief amid a widening investigation of the state's multimillion-dollar computer contract with Oracle Corp.""

Comments

Shredding?

[thetechweenie]

Who cares about paper... Shouldn't they be burning their backup tapes?

Larry Ellison and Bill Gates

[Anonymous Coward]

should get together and form MiracleSoft.
and "miraculously" land national contracts without shredders and scandals getting involved.
They'd be able to just buy everyone.

Re:Larry Ellison and Bill Gates

[barnsleyBigUn]

OK, now I'm having images of Austion Powers style Bill Gates with mini-Larry Ellison...thank you very much!

imagine this

[cr@ckwhore]

Imagine this, even though its far fetched.

Oracle gets driven out of business because of this ordeal. Oracle the database is relicensed under the GPL, and becomes open source. Oh how sweet it would be.

Re:imagine this

[Dr Fro]

While we're at it, I'd like a pony!!

Why these people should go.

[00_NOP]

$25,000 for a $95,000,000 contract? What sort of a deal is that?

No business sense, so of course he should go.

(That's a joke for any defamation lawyers out there).

They should just change the EULA

[gowen]

"Users of this software may not publish benchmarks or comparisons of this software with other products, or blow the whistle on massive financial irregularities in our dealings with the State of California. Clicking 'I accept' constitutes acceptance of this licence"

That should do it

California HIghway Patrol

[Snard]

"California Highway Patrol officers moved in Thursday to halt shredding at the state's information technology department...

You can always count on Ponch and Jon to step in and save the day.

At least

[Anonymous Coward]

They kept the money in state instead of sending it to that state further north!!!

Uh oh, Larry.

[CrazyBrett]

Looks like Larry's gonna get the "Criminal" bit set in his entry in the National Big Brother database.

MySQL

[Captain Large Face]

So how much are 270,000 MySQL licenses?

Re:MySQL

[Skweetis]

Well, this would be a government institution, so, lets see, one MySQL license costs $0, we want 270,000, but we'll get 300,000 just to be sure, 'cause it's a nice round number, but 500,000 is better, 'cause it's even more round. So let's see, 500,000 licenses amortized over the next three budget years, at $0 per license, hmm, lets see, carry the two, add the modulus of the national debt, take the number of taxpayers and divide by the cost of an individual license...

APPLICATION CALC.EXE HAS CAUSED A PAGE FAULT IN MODULE VCACHE.VXD. THE APPLICATION WILL BE TERMINATED. PLEASE CLOSE ALL APPLICATIONS AND RESTART YOUR COMPUTER.

Now, how much ARE 270,000 MySQL licenses? I've no idea.

Re:CEO cashed all stock

[twistedcubic]

I wonder what his intensions were and why he did it?

I can't confirm this, but I believe it's because he wanted the money.

Re:From the article itself...

[Anonymous Coward]

No, this is not quite on a par with the W. Bush dealings with Enron
Spoken like a true Clinton-commie moron.

Blame Game

[Picass0]

The real question:

How to the democrats blame this on Bush?

Re:Institutional incompetence

[Hard_Code]

"While you might not get screwed by a big cooperation"

No, in fact, "a big cooperation" is what makes OSS so valuable!

Highway patrol?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who will they send next, Smokey the Bear?

Or better yet, they could create a new character -
Sharky the Auditor

"Only you can stop audit evasion techniques"