[UltraSane]

That is crazy. One of the main rules of business is to always make it as easy as possible for customers to give you money.

[dmix]

Enterprise companies typically don’t just add credit card forms, they push you through a sales process and don’t care much for small accounts.

[UltraSane]

For automated cloud computing services they do.

[dmix]

Microsoft pretends they do this with Azure where they'll let you signup with a credit card but anyone who has used Azure knows that the web admin is absolutely terrible and almost always requires speaking to a disinterested human to set it up properly.

I'm skeptical Oracle fits into the wider SaaS business category vs enterprise sales.

[nunez]

I've spun up Azure accounts with a cc several times fwiw

[quickthrowman]

Not if the goal is to get you into a sales funnel with a sales exec to juice the contract value. Oracle doesn’t give a single shit about someone spending $500/month

[UltraSane]

Oracle cares if 10 million people are spending $500 a month

[quickthrowman]

No, they don’t. I’d be surprised if Oracle has more than a few hundred thousand customers. $500 a month does not let the largest department in Oracle (Legal) flex their muscles. Oracle is a law firm that sells software licenses so their lawyers have something to do, they aim for bespoke agreements slanted to their side.

[UltraSane]

10 million * $500/month = $60 billion a year which is a lot of money even for Oracle.