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Posted in Floristry giant slams Oracle 'indifference', cosies up to EnterpriseDB
Posted Thursday 5th July 2007 16:27 GMT
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

There is a bit more to this story

If you read other coverage of this story (Google "FTD EnterpriseDB), you will find that FTD is an existing customer of Oracle, and the EDB project is for a reporting system off a production database.

It appears that FTD felt that the response they received as an _existing_ customer was insufficient, and thus looked at alternatives. While US$40K might not be worth much as an individual commission to a rep, the overall impact in terms of this customer, and the press coverage, might be more significant.

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