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FHRRK1

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5. Long standing practice in IT and Software

Wed Jul 8, 2026, 05:44 PM

9 hrs ago

Ellison and Oracle were masters at fucking over customers. Broadcom/AVGO same model in ICs and then software. Get your foot in the door, get them pregnant and then bend them over. Short sell on original deal, then come back in a year and sell what should have been apart of original deal.

Workday is the anti Oracle software company and has lost about 50 percent of stock value in last 18 months, the Woke/DEI honest company gets penalized.

Funny thing, to a person at every customer/company, the IT exec making the call to go with the sleaze bag organizations, was a loud mouthed Republican.

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Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free [View all] WhiteTara 9 hrs ago OP

One of them's born every minute struggle4progress 9 hrs ago #1

I was going to post "suckers" DBoon 9 hrs ago #2

The word I call CEOs rhymes with suckers Jerry2144 9 hrs ago #7

Suckers and losers? Coventina 9 hrs ago #8

See my post below FHRRK1 8 hrs ago #10

Consulting firms... lonely bird 8 hrs ago #11

Don't forget the bribes that were paid by the hardware and software vendors. erronis 8 hrs ago #16

Wait, you mean the salesmen proved to be an unreliable source of information ?? eppur_se_muova 9 hrs ago #3

sorry all I can do is... sheshe2 9 hrs ago #4

Long standing practice in IT and Software FHRRK1 9 hrs ago #5

No love for IBM? I do agree that Ellison took (takes) sleaze to the highest level. erronis 8 hrs ago #17

Had very little interaction with IBM FHRRK1 6 hrs ago #33

You bring up another horrible point about these companies. Stiffing the sales people that land the contracts. erronis 6 hrs ago #35

6- 11 trillion dollars SamuelTheThird 9 hrs ago #6

And taxpayers will end up bailing them out once again. OGBuzz 8 hrs ago #13

Now they have to hire back all the workers who were previously fired FakeNoose 8 hrs ago #9

You don't get to be a corporate executive by rationally thinking through the problem. Aristus 8 hrs ago #12

There was a chief executive at GE years ago named Jack Welch. Dr. T 8 hrs ago #14

As a former IT worker, slightlv 8 hrs ago #15

I worked decades in mainframe Skittles 7 hrs ago #23

Still being predicted. Even while mainframes continue to process 3_Limes 7 hrs ago #25

Same here. Back in my day they would make their sales pitch and get a contract, usually with upper managers... the nelm 6 hrs ago #31

The big AI players have figured out that its usage not effiency paulrevere2018 7 hrs ago #18

Smartest guys in the room on their way to creating yet another gargantuan crisis. NoMoreRepugs 7 hrs ago #19

Send ICE to detain those execs for stealing our jobs IronLionZion 7 hrs ago #20

Gen-X will be charging 2x our salaries when we come back as independent consultants. OC375 7 hrs ago #21

Reminds me of the early days at AOL, paying per minute and getting huge bills... LOL... n/t TygrBright 7 hrs ago #22

This is the exact reason voters shouldn't put business people in govt positions --- because business people in2herbs 7 hrs ago #24

These shit-for-brains are the same execs who insist their pay/compensation is merit based. RockRaven 7 hrs ago #26

Thanks for all the knowledgeable comments. yellow dahlia 7 hrs ago #27

I agree! WhiteTara 6 hrs ago #34

Keep the workers. Fire the executives. Ditch the AI. NBachers 6 hrs ago #28

But they're okay with their bills from Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure? ChicagoTeamster 6 hrs ago #29

With AWS or Azure you should know what you're paying for - measurable usage of resources erronis 6 hrs ago #36

Almost like corporate executives are--in fact--overly simplistic morons, and don't deserve the worship they've grown Karasu 6 hrs ago #30

Not so fast. This article is very incomplete. HeartachesNhangovers 6 hrs ago #32