AC troll criticizing the posting history of people that actually login and thus have posting histories while he himself remains AC to troll and sockpuppet and so has no record?
Tell me, little troll... where do you get the right to talk about someone else's record when you don't have one yourself?
I'm not going to go to the trouble of making a case that will take some effort to dig up links if I'm just dealing with another troll/sockpuppet that will say "tee hee, I wasted a lot of your time proving a point I knew you'd win... tee hee hee hee"
individually anything is possible... statistically they won't for a large number of reasons none of which are discriminatory or misogynistic or whatever other code word you have for bigoted.
Men and women are not the same. This is obvious to anyone. And it is only modern post modernist crypto marxist nonsense that says otherwise. Literally every other vantage backs me up.
Science?... I have neurology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology... and really basically any subject that even remotely touches on the issue with any sort of evidence based approach.
What is your argument? "Well you're not being politically correct so you're a stupid head! *sticks out tongue like a child*"... I mean, that's your argument.
And from this you presume superiority and enlightenment? You're an idiot.
Now, if you want to login... we can trade evidence and attempt to have a civil discussion. But I rather doubt you're capable of it. So you're probably going to feel uncomfortable doing anything but AC trolling or sockpuppeting... so assuming you do that... Fuck yourself with a rake and good day.
Of course not. I felt honor bound to respond that way. I said I would and I did.
I know there are some other people reading this thread and some of them felt I was too dismissive of the issue. So for them at least it might have been illuminating.
More to the point though, by taking the tactic you're taking now... I can also dismiss you with this sockpuppet account since you've got a record on this account of this behavior.
Which means... I can basically dismiss you with as much credibility on this account as I could with your AC account. Perhaps you want to make another sock puppet account?
I am genuinely curious what main account I first encountered you on though. If any... I mean, are you the nitwit that fixated on me after I dissed psychologists? Where did I pick you up? Seriously curious... Its always interesting seeing where people get their anuses inverted.
Its never happened to me. I've never been so incensed by someone that I've followed them around like you've been following me around. I've never cared.
Indeed you are in compliance and I will certainly respond to you. You are also not an AC troll. I can see your fake name and know that when you post something under it that it is you and no one else.
Anyway. I'll respond to you if you login like this. I can't promise to respect you... that would be a lie. But... respond, sure. You'll get that. And if you want to talk about a topic... I'll even respond to that instead of just thinking up insults or something.
So... now that you've earned the ability to participate in the discussion by logging in... was there something you wanted to say on topic. Or was this really all you have to contribute? Because... that would be disappointing... for your mother... and father... really your whole genetic line.
Come on, now lets hear what you want to say on the topic.
you know... making accounts that just show how colossally butt hurt you are about me... isn't really hurting me.
You're also showing anyone that cares to watch that I'm quite justified in my approach to ACs. This sockpuppet account you've made is completely pathetic. I mean... look at you. You think you're trolling me... but YOU are clearly the one that is upset. Not me. You're just throwing a giant temper tantrum.:-D
Anywho... I thought this was an appropriate link. It generally addresses my approach to ACs at this point: https://youtu.be/kQFKtI6gn9Y?t...
So the justification for why women are paid less than men is that they're actually not. There are a lot of variables and when you go through them you find that being female CORRELATES with certain other valuables that CAUSE the pay gap but the pay gap is itself not CAUSED by gender itself.
An example of this would be the people that work for Hillary Clinton's campaign. I believe the women on her staff make about 75~80 percent what the men make. Now, if you stick with your simplistic pay gap statistics and then ASSUME that the pay gap is due to discrimination or misogyny or something then you'd be forced to say that Hillery Clinton discriminates against women.
It doesn't stop there though because you'll find this pattern in Obama's staff as well as a lot of other places that the cultural marxists don't want to shine a light.
Look, you can't start a class war so you're trying to play up any kind of made up tension you can create between races or genders or ethnic groups or religions. Because what you want is to create a lot of US vs THEM hostility and then feed off the chaos.
That's your game. And it works because people are stupid and lazy and credulous and those that aren't tend to be too afraid or contemptuous to make a difference.
The problem you're increasingly running into is that you can't silence people on the internet. You can't play identity politics with me as much as you'd love to call people I know and tell them I'm banging 9 year olds. Its just not an option for you. And this leaves you with nothing but to get madder and madder and trollier and trollier.:)
Your entire world view is a lie.;-)
Women are not paid less than men. PEOPLE that work LESS or work in less demanding jobs are paid less.
That is what is going on. Which is why in many cases if you get the gender gap people talking long enough they'll say stuff like "well it is sexist to pay women less even if they work less because facts of the female body/the species compel women to not work as much as men."... Which is a more honest argument. However, the reality is that society does pay women more than men. The vast majority of subsidy money and charity money for medical issues goes to women. Comparatively little goes to men. Societies that don't take care of women don't last. And here someone will bring up Saudi Arabia or some tribe in Africa or whatever... and that's fantastic but that isn't the US... which is what we're talking about.
Women are fine. There are just some "issues" trolls that like to play people off each other and feed on it for power, money, influence.
It's garbage. The pay gap was actually disproven about ten seconds after it was first proposed. The statistics on it were always crap. I remember in one case a woman working at a reception desk for a coal mine was conflated with the guys that actually work INSIDE the coal mine... digging coal. A lot of that is going on in these stats.
I believe the most exhaustive study on the pay gap was actually done by some feminists out of Vermont... possibly Maryland. I don't remember. I can find the stats if I need to... and because they had integrity they did not distort their data to show a pay gap. What they did do was whine about how it was unfair that women have babies. But they did actually show that the biggest pay gap they could actually point to was about 2 percent. Which is frankly within the margin of error for something this vague.
Ah but you're not an adult for me to prove anything to... you're an AC shithead.
Login and you become a person. Stay AC and you might as well be one of those chat bots that seems like a person for like... two posts... and then rapidly fails to grasp simple concepts leading to a total break down of the illusion.
Clarification required. What does "cocksificaton" mean? Its obviously a made up word but I can't figure out the meaning through context. So define the term.
As to women in the sex trade making less than men in the sex trade, statistically I think women actually make more in that profession. However, I think it is arguable that they're not the same jobs. A male and a female are not interchangable in the various sex industries so I think that is one of the few industries where it isn't valid to make direct sex comparisons.
Other trades would be sports, fashion, and marketing for obvious reasons.
As to the rest of your post... I'm not seeing a coherent argument in it. Restate.
Anger? No... anger requires fear... it requires that you threaten me in some manner and I fear you.
I don't... so there's no anger.
What I "feel" if you're one of those morons that can't operate in terms other than emotional like some fucking animal... if you need to know what I feel... basically boredom... possibly some irritation at boring people.
I have only made prefunctory responses to you when you're on your AC sockpuppet account.
If you want to seriously discuss the issue where facts, citiations, and the deeper reasoning for any position is discussed in any detail then you're going to have to stop lurking and just use your account.
If you're so much of a fucking coward that you can't login under a fake name then why would anyone think you have anything valuable to contribute?
So sure... you get a response. But the response is THIS response. Basically I tell you to login or fuck your mother with a rake.
No one's forcing me to pretend you're not a troll or a sockpuppet account.
Are you doing that? Are you holding a gun against my head and saying "if you don't treat this AC like he isn't a troll or a sock puppet, then I'm going to blow your brains all over the walls... RAAAWR"...
Because if that's what you've got going for you... then I'll pretend that you're not a troll or a sock puppet.
Buuuut... since you don't have any of that going for you... I can of course treat you anyway I want.
Can't I, shithead?
And what did I just get done telling you? You can log in and we can have a discussion on topic and I will do my best to be substantive and provide citations and respectful.
OOOOOOORRR... you can be an AC shit head and I can treat you as such.:D
So sure... nothing forces me to read slashdot. But then... nothing is forcing me to treat you as anything but a troll or a sock puppet either. So... your point is basically moot... isn't it?
You're not going to login... too terrified of posting under a fake name apparently... so let me just get in a final "fuck yourself with a rake" and good day.
the same can be said of any business model before it eats shit and dies... or even as it eats shit and dies.
The record industry was saying similar things. Your argument basically boils down to "we're okay now so what we're doing will continue to be okay."
Its not... we're seeing massive defections from their products, many cheaper competitors are entering the field with the SAME core features. I mean... Oracle has a lot of bells and whistles but no one actually needs most of them. What people want is a very fast and very scalable off the shelf database. The performance and not eating shit when it gets expanded to a trillion records is really what oracle is all about.
There are other products on the market that do that now. So... Oracle is having some problems. And if you think everything is just going to stay the same... okay. You go with that theory and see where that takes you.
Login and we'll continue the conversation. I think the whole AC concept is invalid. Think its okay for ACs to make a comment on the OT... but not to reply to anyone else. If you want to talk to me. Login.
If I have a military base, I assume that whomever comes to attack my base has fewer guys with guns than I do... and I generally it will be a cold day in hell before they'll get very far into the base.
And you assume other things... you assume that your security people can tell the difference between someone with security clearance and a birthday clown.
We assume that the people with clearance obtained it legitimately.
We assume that the people that were given security didn't subsequently decide to sell us out for hookers and blow.
Assumptions.
And there are good assumptions... assumptions that really will hold under most circumstances and bad assumptions.
And good security is basically a process of separating out good assumptions from dumb ones. Then recognizing that your dumb assumptions were a convenient fig leaf you put over serious vulnerabilities that you actually don't have a good solution for...
And then you need to actually come up with a GOOD assumption that covers for what were previously laughable assumptions.
If your security is based on interlocking layers of good assumptions... are you unhackable? I don't know... its a question of perfection and perfection is hard in this universe. BUT... really fucking good security? Near perfect? Sure. I mean... you can do "excellent"... excellent is possible.
But that's not to say that even good security should be discounted as crap. Good is often the best security possible because excellent requires time and money and competent management and users that don't have their heads wedged up their asses.
Now will good security keep ze germans out or whatever? Typically yeah. Even good security is a bitch to get through even for a state sponsored hacking team.
What keeps embarressing people is SHIT security or NO security.
That is what keeps failing. Not "good security"... not "excellent security"... not "perfect security"...
F'ing none at all keeps failing.
So... lets not geek out on the "perfect" or "unhackable" claim. And instead lets focus on whether or not the change to the OS makes Windows have "good security". If it accomplishes so much as that then we're doing well. If they pushed it up a notch and it's EXCELLENT... Then we're doing very very well indeed.
Who the fuck do you think you are anyway? The Dali Lama? What god blew smoke up your ass to give you divine wisdom? The presumption of you twits to think YOU know what is and is not enlightened and of course no one else does.
Buy an island... just don't charge uncompetitive rates for your goods and services.
You can get stinking rich without fucking over your customer. I can cite a lot of very very very rich people that are feared by their COMPETITORS not their customers.
Oracle has been sucking people into their products and then nickle and diming for basic shit for ages. Its not competitive.
They need a pricing model that better reflects the market, better addresses their competitors products which are often radically cheaper, and yet still gives us the enterprise focus that has made Oracle the go to company for enterprise databases.
This is all doable, wouldn't cost oracle a lot of money, and they'd get new customers from smaller businesses.
One thing that is so surprising to me about Oracle is that they focus exclusively on enterprise clients despite the fact that they could offer per user pricing or something that made their software affordable for smaller businesses. And thus when smaller businesses get bigger... Oracle would have a lock on their business because they were being used from the beginning.
The other thing I've noticed a lot with Oracle is that it is pirated a lot. The Oracle training programs they offer... the certification programs... they give people copies of the software... and now you have some database programmer wandering around trying to get a job programming databases and he can only program enterprise databases... what happens when he gets a job for a smaller company? He installs Oracle anyway... fraudlently because no one at that level is paying the Oracle licensing fee.
I've seen this in a lot of medium sized businesses... they are running Oracle... but they're paying zero dollars. And before someone says "but what if they're sued for piracy!"... doesn't really happen in the real world. Yes... occasionally... one in a million will get busted. But really it isn't enough for anyone to care. I mean... some percentage of the population is going to get stuck by lightning every year... doesn't' stop you from going outside. Same with cars, planes, food poisoning. Risk below a certain threshold is ignored.
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AC troll criticizing the posting history of people that actually login and thus have posting histories while he himself remains AC to troll and sockpuppet and so has no record?
Tell me, little troll... where do you get the right to talk about someone else's record when you don't have one yourself?
Troll: Troll comment
Karma: Login
Troll: Troll comment
Karma: Login
Sockpuppet: Karma always says the same thing.
Oh really, fucktard?
that's because you didn't log in. ;)
I'm not going to go to the trouble of making a case that will take some effort to dig up links if I'm just dealing with another troll/sockpuppet that will say "tee hee, I wasted a lot of your time proving a point I knew you'd win... tee hee hee hee"
So no. You can log in or...
https://youtu.be/kQFKtI6gn9Y?t...
individually anything is possible... statistically they won't for a large number of reasons none of which are discriminatory or misogynistic or whatever other code word you have for bigoted.
Men and women are not the same. This is obvious to anyone. And it is only modern post modernist crypto marxist nonsense that says otherwise. Literally every other vantage backs me up.
Science?... I have neurology, anthropology, evolutionary psychology... and really basically any subject that even remotely touches on the issue with any sort of evidence based approach.
What is your argument? "Well you're not being politically correct so you're a stupid head! *sticks out tongue like a child*"... I mean, that's your argument.
And from this you presume superiority and enlightenment? You're an idiot.
Now, if you want to login... we can trade evidence and attempt to have a civil discussion. But I rather doubt you're capable of it. So you're probably going to feel uncomfortable doing anything but AC trolling or sockpuppeting... so assuming you do that... Fuck yourself with a rake and good day.
Of course not. I felt honor bound to respond that way. I said I would and I did.
I know there are some other people reading this thread and some of them felt I was too dismissive of the issue. So for them at least it might have been illuminating.
More to the point though, by taking the tactic you're taking now... I can also dismiss you with this sockpuppet account since you've got a record on this account of this behavior.
Which means... I can basically dismiss you with as much credibility on this account as I could with your AC account. Perhaps you want to make another sock puppet account?
I am genuinely curious what main account I first encountered you on though. If any... I mean, are you the nitwit that fixated on me after I dissed psychologists? Where did I pick you up? Seriously curious... Its always interesting seeing where people get their anuses inverted.
Its never happened to me. I've never been so incensed by someone that I've followed them around like you've been following me around. I've never cared.
Anywho... respond as you will.
Indeed you are in compliance and I will certainly respond to you. You are also not an AC troll. I can see your fake name and know that when you post something under it that it is you and no one else.
Anyway. I'll respond to you if you login like this. I can't promise to respect you... that would be a lie. But... respond, sure. You'll get that. And if you want to talk about a topic... I'll even respond to that instead of just thinking up insults or something.
So... now that you've earned the ability to participate in the discussion by logging in... was there something you wanted to say on topic. Or was this really all you have to contribute? Because... that would be disappointing... for your mother... and father... really your whole genetic line.
Come on, now lets hear what you want to say on the topic.
Really? What "buzzword" did I use?
you know... making accounts that just show how colossally butt hurt you are about me... isn't really hurting me.
You're also showing anyone that cares to watch that I'm quite justified in my approach to ACs. This sockpuppet account you've made is completely pathetic. I mean... look at you. You think you're trolling me... but YOU are clearly the one that is upset. Not me. You're just throwing a giant temper tantrum. :-D
Anywho... I thought this was an appropriate link. It generally addresses my approach to ACs at this point:
https://youtu.be/kQFKtI6gn9Y?t...
oh, a politically incorrect justification. Okay.
So the justification for why women are paid less than men is that they're actually not. There are a lot of variables and when you go through them you find that being female CORRELATES with certain other valuables that CAUSE the pay gap but the pay gap is itself not CAUSED by gender itself.
An example of this would be the people that work for Hillary Clinton's campaign. I believe the women on her staff make about 75~80 percent what the men make. Now, if you stick with your simplistic pay gap statistics and then ASSUME that the pay gap is due to discrimination or misogyny or something then you'd be forced to say that Hillery Clinton discriminates against women.
It doesn't stop there though because you'll find this pattern in Obama's staff as well as a lot of other places that the cultural marxists don't want to shine a light.
Look, you can't start a class war so you're trying to play up any kind of made up tension you can create between races or genders or ethnic groups or religions. Because what you want is to create a lot of US vs THEM hostility and then feed off the chaos.
That's your game. And it works because people are stupid and lazy and credulous and those that aren't tend to be too afraid or contemptuous to make a difference.
The problem you're increasingly running into is that you can't silence people on the internet. You can't play identity politics with me as much as you'd love to call people I know and tell them I'm banging 9 year olds. Its just not an option for you. And this leaves you with nothing but to get madder and madder and trollier and trollier. :)
Your entire world view is a lie. ;-)
Women are not paid less than men. PEOPLE that work LESS or work in less demanding jobs are paid less.
That is what is going on. Which is why in many cases if you get the gender gap people talking long enough they'll say stuff like "well it is sexist to pay women less even if they work less because facts of the female body/the species compel women to not work as much as men."... Which is a more honest argument. However, the reality is that society does pay women more than men. The vast majority of subsidy money and charity money for medical issues goes to women. Comparatively little goes to men. Societies that don't take care of women don't last. And here someone will bring up Saudi Arabia or some tribe in Africa or whatever... and that's fantastic but that isn't the US... which is what we're talking about.
Women are fine. There are just some "issues" trolls that like to play people off each other and feed on it for power, money, influence.
It's garbage. The pay gap was actually disproven about ten seconds after it was first proposed. The statistics on it were always crap. I remember in one case a woman working at a reception desk for a coal mine was conflated with the guys that actually work INSIDE the coal mine... digging coal. A lot of that is going on in these stats.
I believe the most exhaustive study on the pay gap was actually done by some feminists out of Vermont... possibly Maryland. I don't remember. I can find the stats if I need to... and because they had integrity they did not distort their data to show a pay gap. What they did do was whine about how it was unfair that women have babies. But they did actually show that the biggest pay gap they could actually point to was about 2 percent. Which is frankly within the margin of error for something this vague.
So there you go.
Ah but you're not an adult for me to prove anything to... you're an AC shithead.
Login and you become a person. Stay AC and you might as well be one of those chat bots that seems like a person for like... two posts... and then rapidly fails to grasp simple concepts leading to a total break down of the illusion.
Proving a point? Is that what you think I'm trying to do? My god... talking to you people is like trying to communicate with a concussed sea lion.
This isn't argument... this is abuse. If you want an argument then login. If you want me to call you a shithead, then stay as AC. ;-)
""Lets ROCK!!! ""
Excellent.
Clarification required.
What does "cocksificaton" mean? Its obviously a made up word but I can't figure out the meaning through context. So define the term.
As to women in the sex trade making less than men in the sex trade, statistically I think women actually make more in that profession. However, I think it is arguable that they're not the same jobs. A male and a female are not interchangable in the various sex industries so I think that is one of the few industries where it isn't valid to make direct sex comparisons.
Other trades would be sports, fashion, and marketing for obvious reasons.
As to the rest of your post... I'm not seeing a coherent argument in it. Restate.
Anger? No... anger requires fear... it requires that you threaten me in some manner and I fear you.
I don't... so there's no anger.
What I "feel" if you're one of those morons that can't operate in terms other than emotional like some fucking animal... if you need to know what I feel... basically boredom... possibly some irritation at boring people.
That's about it.
You're assuming your policies and procedures are meaningful.
I frequently find polices in place that are little more than security theater. Cargo cult security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It gives the seeming of security without actually doing anything.
I have only made prefunctory responses to you when you're on your AC sockpuppet account.
If you want to seriously discuss the issue where facts, citiations, and the deeper reasoning for any position is discussed in any detail then you're going to have to stop lurking and just use your account.
If you're so much of a fucking coward that you can't login under a fake name then why would anyone think you have anything valuable to contribute?
So sure... you get a response. But the response is THIS response. Basically I tell you to login or fuck your mother with a rake.
You know... deep thoughts.
You have to have someone upload the patches to the airgapped machines using the sneakernet.
I'm not quite getting what we're talking about here? Operating system patches? or program patches?
Program patches are frequently offered in an offline format and MS offers patches like that as well.
So I don't get what we're talking about here. What are we patching?
To paraphrase Samuel L... Be specific, motherfucker.
No one's forcing me to pretend you're not a troll or a sockpuppet account.
Are you doing that? Are you holding a gun against my head and saying "if you don't treat this AC like he isn't a troll or a sock puppet, then I'm going to blow your brains all over the walls... RAAAWR"...
Because if that's what you've got going for you... then I'll pretend that you're not a troll or a sock puppet.
Buuuut... since you don't have any of that going for you... I can of course treat you anyway I want.
Can't I, shithead?
And what did I just get done telling you? You can log in and we can have a discussion on topic and I will do my best to be substantive and provide citations and respectful.
OOOOOOORRR... you can be an AC shit head and I can treat you as such. :D
So sure... nothing forces me to read slashdot. But then... nothing is forcing me to treat you as anything but a troll or a sock puppet either. So... your point is basically moot... isn't it?
You're not going to login... too terrified of posting under a fake name apparently... so let me just get in a final "fuck yourself with a rake" and good day.
the same can be said of any business model before it eats shit and dies... or even as it eats shit and dies.
The record industry was saying similar things. Your argument basically boils down to "we're okay now so what we're doing will continue to be okay."
Its not... we're seeing massive defections from their products, many cheaper competitors are entering the field with the SAME core features. I mean... Oracle has a lot of bells and whistles but no one actually needs most of them. What people want is a very fast and very scalable off the shelf database. The performance and not eating shit when it gets expanded to a trillion records is really what oracle is all about.
There are other products on the market that do that now. So... Oracle is having some problems. And if you think everything is just going to stay the same... okay. You go with that theory and see where that takes you.
One's a troll and one's an asshole.
I'm happy to talk to assholes. Trolls get mocked and shit on.
Login and we'll continue the conversation. I think the whole AC concept is invalid. Think its okay for ACs to make a comment on the OT... but not to reply to anyone else. If you want to talk to me. Login.
... but what are the chances of that?
Security relies on certain assumptions.
If I have a military base, I assume that whomever comes to attack my base has fewer guys with guns than I do... and I generally it will be a cold day in hell before they'll get very far into the base.
And you assume other things... you assume that your security people can tell the difference between someone with security clearance and a birthday clown.
We assume that the people with clearance obtained it legitimately.
We assume that the people that were given security didn't subsequently decide to sell us out for hookers and blow.
Assumptions.
And there are good assumptions... assumptions that really will hold under most circumstances and bad assumptions.
And good security is basically a process of separating out good assumptions from dumb ones. Then recognizing that your dumb assumptions were a convenient fig leaf you put over serious vulnerabilities that you actually don't have a good solution for...
And then you need to actually come up with a GOOD assumption that covers for what were previously laughable assumptions.
If your security is based on interlocking layers of good assumptions... are you unhackable? I don't know... its a question of perfection and perfection is hard in this universe. BUT... really fucking good security? Near perfect? Sure. I mean... you can do "excellent"... excellent is possible.
But that's not to say that even good security should be discounted as crap. Good is often the best security possible because excellent requires time and money and competent management and users that don't have their heads wedged up their asses.
Now will good security keep ze germans out or whatever? Typically yeah. Even good security is a bitch to get through even for a state sponsored hacking team.
What keeps embarressing people is SHIT security or NO security.
That is what keeps failing. Not "good security"... not "excellent security"... not "perfect security"...
F'ing none at all keeps failing.
So... lets not geek out on the "perfect" or "unhackable" claim. And instead lets focus on whether or not the change to the OS makes Windows have "good security". If it accomplishes so much as that then we're doing well. If they pushed it up a notch and it's EXCELLENT... Then we're doing very very well indeed.
Refuses to login while being a hostile cunt = Troll/sock puppet
Also... Dalai... oh so very sorry for the typo... I'll let Wonka apologize for me:
http://cdn.meme.am/instances/5...
https://i.imgflip.com/dakta.jp...
http://www.memesly.com/media/c...
And my general response to you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pretty much... Still Oracle does do some things very well. Their product is not bad... its just over priced.
Login and we'll see who is unenlightened.
Who the fuck do you think you are anyway? The Dali Lama? What god blew smoke up your ass to give you divine wisdom? The presumption of you twits to think YOU know what is and is not enlightened and of course no one else does.
Buy an island... just don't charge uncompetitive rates for your goods and services.
You can get stinking rich without fucking over your customer. I can cite a lot of very very very rich people that are feared by their COMPETITORS not their customers.
Oracle has been sucking people into their products and then nickle and diming for basic shit for ages. Its not competitive.
They need a pricing model that better reflects the market, better addresses their competitors products which are often radically cheaper, and yet still gives us the enterprise focus that has made Oracle the go to company for enterprise databases.
This is all doable, wouldn't cost oracle a lot of money, and they'd get new customers from smaller businesses.
One thing that is so surprising to me about Oracle is that they focus exclusively on enterprise clients despite the fact that they could offer per user pricing or something that made their software affordable for smaller businesses. And thus when smaller businesses get bigger... Oracle would have a lock on their business because they were being used from the beginning.
The other thing I've noticed a lot with Oracle is that it is pirated a lot. The Oracle training programs they offer... the certification programs... they give people copies of the software... and now you have some database programmer wandering around trying to get a job programming databases and he can only program enterprise databases... what happens when he gets a job for a smaller company? He installs Oracle anyway... fraudlently because no one at that level is paying the Oracle licensing fee.
I've seen this in a lot of medium sized businesses... they are running Oracle... but they're paying zero dollars. And before someone says "but what if they're sued for piracy!"... doesn't really happen in the real world. Yes... occasionally... one in a million will get busted. But really it isn't enough for anyone to care. I mean... some percentage of the population is going to get stuck by lightning every year... doesn't' stop you from going outside. Same with cars, planes, food poisoning. Risk below a certain threshold is ignored.