The database was basically built on tax money
For Dept of Defense, Ellison took it to commercial market.
Couple things, it is Oracle conFusion, and they should have likely used Workday for Financials, HCM, and Payroll. Then built customization on top.
Dollars to donuts the competitors, likely SAP and Workday told them that there wasn’t an out of the box solution for everything, while Oracle told them no issue. Had they done some due diligence they would have found which companies were useful.
For those outside the software world, here is the kicker, if they spent 10 million on software, each year they would have to cut a check for 2.2 million for software support, regardless if they had the solution running,
I did Oracle implementations for almost 20 years as a partner of Oracle. Numerous times I told clients that the proposed solution would not work at the proposed budget. Not once did the client listen, but in almost all cases called back a year or two later and wanted us to come in and fix it at well below the original budget.