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hunterjrj on March 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL

I chuckled a bit because the GP mentioned Oracle. I'm sure you've heard this one:

Customer: "How much does an Oracle database license cost?" Oracle Rep: "Well, how much do you have?"

true_religion on March 18, 2016 [–]

That's actually not a joke. Oracle liked to argue you should accept server licences as being a fraction of your budget, so when it went up you'd automatically pay them more.

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