Oracle has been a castle built on sand for a long time. Their entire business model hinged on pulling off massive pricing bait-and-switches with large companies, and there's only so many of those you can do before people get wise to it.
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2026
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I wonder who they're going to sue to get out of this one.
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It would be funnier if the whole stock market weren't a scam machine.
I haven't watched "The Big Short" in a long time... but aren't BBB- rated things "dogshit wrapped in catshit"?
I hope Larry Ellison feels it, but he probably won't.
How would we know?
bad bad bad -
Big budget bust.
BIG BADDA BOOM!