[AtlasBarfed]

A shakedown price increase means that your vendor isn't your partner. Because major vendors are business partners.

It's like blackmail. If you pay up, how do you know another one isn't coming the next year?

But... Oracle stays in business, so what do I know.

[buggeryorkshire]

Exactly. I do not know how what is happening with VMware didn't happen to Oracle years ago, apart from them being a legal firm with a tech product attached.

[bombcar]

Because Oracle does have an actual product and team that is actually skilled and delivers what they promise. Sure, there are competitors that might do similar, but they also cost a pretty penny.