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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 Ellisons 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
(10,043 posts)blm
(113,091 posts)FHRRK
(500 posts)He is a major asshole, but at least smart enough to realize you need a functioning Govt.
orangecrush
(19,617 posts)And made his money in defense?
FHRRK
(500 posts)Foundation, aka start! Where did he get is start? Look it up.
And no debate over major asshole, he is.
First lesson is free!
aggiesal
(8,923 posts)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
(3,523 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,393 posts)So many cities are stuck with it because its too expensive to switch.
FHRRK
(500 posts)Use a Cloud Based competitor and the costs will be quickly recovered.
The database and apps dont suck, the company sucks because he is a Major Asshole and didnt 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 didnt 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 doesnt 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. Didnt matter that the client only used the base HCM set up user access, Oracle would give no forgiveness.
Ziggysmom
(3,412 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)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
(3,412 posts)Microsoft AX Dynamics. I'm getting to old for all this, I long for the old IBM mainframe days, LOL!
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)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.