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… drove sales of cloud products using threats and extortive tactics. The use of such tactics concealed the lack of real demand for Oracle’s cloud services, making the growth unsustainable (and ultimately driving away customers). Among other things, the Company threatened current customers with “audits” of their use of the Company’s non-cloud software licenses unless the customers agreed to shift their business to Oracle cloud programs.”
There are public examples of Oracle offering “audit or purchase cloud” options to customers. This is where the expense of the audit is used to coerce a purchase.
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Executive Summary

SAP and Oracle environments are very complex.
AWS, Google Cloud, and other cloud services have the potential of reducing this complexity.

Video Introduction: How to Choose Simple Over Complex Solutions with Cloud Versus SAP and Oracle
https://youtu.be/e5FF8Y3KiRc
Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video)
Something we find to be less discussed as a philosophical difference is the tendency to choose complexity. SAP and Oracle tend towards making things complex, which (in part) explains the high TCO of SAP and Oracle installations. Several years ago, SAP tried to trick customers that the term simple was …