[meddlepal]

> your old business model is dead and your attempts to make a new one would even embarrass Elsevier

Sounds like wishcasting. Oracle is still be raking in money. The death of Oracle has long been a fan favorite on HN, but it's nowhere near being dead and their business model while perhaps antiquated by HN SaaS standards is alive and well and still seems to be working though they're diversifying into a number of new areas to deal with possible long term decline of Oracle DB.

[throwaway1492]

I don't know how they do it, but I've seen some really diehard anti Oracle companies adopt Oracle. One place had a really large mainframe installation and DB2 licensed all over. They moved to Oracle. I was shocked. They play some kind of massive long game, no one else is at their level when it comes to sales.