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> that specialize in Oracle license compliance

Oh but it gets better. Many of them are ex oracle employees. It's a huge racket that exists for itself.



These kinds of things are everywhere. To pick one at random, if you want to list a product on amazon.com, there's no shortage of consulting companies that will figure out how to make it happen. And then you can get a consultant for your amazon advertising (the ads that go on amazon.com to advertise other products also on amazon.com) and a consultant to help make your company the default choice when a customer clicks the buy button in the "buy box," and a few more. You can easily spend hundreds of thousands on these consultants.

Honestly, the Amazon hustle is a crazy and fascinating little ecosystem in a bunch of ways.


Spreetail, one of Nebraska’s biggest tech startups, specializes in this area. Not only for Amazon, but other marketplaces like Walmart, eBay, TikTok, etc.

https://news.crunchbase.com/retail/spreetail-nebraska-e-comm...


You say ecosystem, but at present, I see "racket".


I have mentally trained myself that every time I read the word "Oracle", I replace it with "Larry Ellison needs a bigger yacht". Thus far, this has worked great for me in staying away from paying that organization even one dollar.


Oracle is an acronym: One rich asshole called Larry Ellison.


He actually sold his bigger yacht (The Rising Sun) to David Geffen and settled for a smaller one (Musashi), lol


the revolving door of oracle consultants? :)




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