Son of a repug megadonor makes big donation to Biden campaign

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

Quotes from the article:

David Ellison, the son of Republican megadonor Larry Ellison, gave $929,600 to back the reelection efforts of President Joe Biden, putting him among the top recent donors to the incumbent Democrat.

David Ellison’s donation comes as his father, Larry Ellison, the chairman of Oracle, has kept his wallet firmly shut this election cycle.

Larry Ellison, who historically has been a major Republican donor, has not made a single federal political donation so far in 2024, records show.

Link:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/16/biden-fund-gets-money-from-son-of-gop-donor-larry-ellison.html

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. 👍🏻

[blm]

2. 👍🏽

[FHRRK]

3. Larry's wealth was built on a foundation of Defense/Public dollars

He is a major asshole, but at least smart enough to realize you need a functioning Govt.

[orangecrush]

4. Major Asshole?

And made his money in defense?

[FHRRK]

5. Go back and reread my post

Foundation, aka start! Where did he get is start? Look it up.

And no debate over major asshole, he is.

1977 Ellison joined with Miner and Oates to form Software Development Laboratories (SDL), which was created to do contract programming for other companies. Ellison wanted SDL to do more. Inspired by a research paper written by British-born computer scientist Edgar F. Codd that outlined a relational database model, Ellison and his colleagues saw commercial potential in the approach, which organized large amounts of data in a way that allowed for efficient storage and quick retrieval. Ellison, Miner, and Oates set to work developing and marketing a program based on Codd’s data-management theory. They received a contract from the Central Intelligence Agency to develop a database, and they began working on a commercial relational database program. In 1979 the company (now called Relational Software, Inc.) released Oracle, the earliest commercial relational database program to use Structured Query Language (SQL), and the versatile database program quickly became popular.

First lesson is free!

[aggiesal]

11. When I first graduated from college in 1984, my first job was with a DOD contractor ...

My boss was in my office doodling on my marker board when I asked what he was up to.
He wanted to create a DB of RADAR parameters so that algorithms can determine Radar characteristics.
I told him I can show him how to do it.
So I designed this database in about an hour and then proceeded to program it into our system.
It became my baby.

Oracle wasn't popular at the time, but I found out what I had designed was a relational database.
And to top it off, Oracle was based in Belmont, CA. where I was working. They were located in the hills
of Belmont, but later took over the space that belonged to Marine World Africa, U.S.A., just across the
101 freeway from where I was working.

[whopis01]

16. I think the "money in defense" and "major asshole" connection was referring to something like this....

[AllaN01Bear]

7. hem, spaceballs?

[Envirogal]

6. Oracle sucks

So many cities are stuck with it because it’s too expensive to switch.

[FHRRK]

8. I would argue it is too expensive NOT to switch.

Use a Cloud Based competitor and the costs will be quickly recovered.

The database and apps don’t suck, the company sucks because he is a Major Asshole and didn’t give two turds about his customers.

Was in numerous sales cycle where Oracle App sales reps would allow deals to go through with only one database license, when at a minimum 16 were needed. 25k per license. The tech rep would wait until the customer went live and then hit them with the extra fees.

Root cause, App reps didn’t get commission on DB license, so a business process that promotes screwing over customers from a software company that could put validations in to stop the transactions.

Similar flaws in user count, software doesn’t stop adding users over licensing agreement, easy to do, but they would rather audit after the fact a back bill customers. Similar flaw in App config, company might want Fin or MFg apps only, not HCM. Issue is users need to be defined in HCM, so if DB admin picked wrong option, Oracle would come back after the fact and charge a quarter million plus to the client. Didn’t matter that the client only used the base HCM set up user access, Oracle would give no forgiveness.

[Ziggysmom]

9. Ugh Oracle! I'm an IT Analyst, using the cloud Oracle, and it is NOT user friendly.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Here I thought I was just stupid

I usually learn applications pretty quickly, but Oracle is a beast. Anytime I see it in a job description, I move on. SAP is another I won't touch. I just read that SAP is going through "restructuring".

[Ziggysmom]

15. I have only experienced the SAP pricing module, but it was no fun! Another winner is

Microsoft AX Dynamics. I'm getting to old for all this, I long for the old IBM mainframe days, LOL!

[red dog 1]

10. Interesting that Larry Ellison "has not made a single federal political donation so far in 2024"

[Warpy]

12. The kids are all right

Even some of the kids raised with those funny rich man equations about the rest of us are all right.

Conservatism won't die, bad ideas never do, but maybe they'll push it back in the dark corners with other discarded "isms" for a while.

[Upthevibe]

13. Kick. N/T