> From my chair, they make an expensive database they try to sell to golf executives.

This is basically it. You wouldn’t want to use oracle for anything, and they know that. What they also know, very very well, is that they can get their fingers into high-dollar orgs and shmooze people that have little knowledge on the matter to lock themselves into basically never ending contracts for garbage products.

Oracle is a perfect distillation of capitalism in that way.