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To: Chris Travers <[email protected]>
To: Benjamin Scherrey <[email protected]>
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Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Clift <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Birmingham City Council chose Oracle, went broke because of it ;)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 07:59:37 -0700
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On 9/7/23 02:49, Chris Travers wrote:
> An important lesson here is to always sit down with a client and
> understand their needs before selling an ERP.......
Unless you have a legal department that will run the customer into the
ground with litigation. In a somewhat related case:
https://www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/news-media-releases/oregon-oracle-reach-settlement-worth-more...
Where Oracle ended settling by paying ~$35 million in cash and ~$60
million in credits for a failed project with the state of Oregon that
they collected $240 million for.
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Adrian Klaver
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