[VOA]

Just a bit of "the rest of the story" to balance the news reports.

Oracle IS the P-51 Mustang of database software.
The question is...is there corruption in the way the deal is structured (or,
perhaps more importantly, hidden from public view).

Just posting this to let folks know that the Oracle software is AWESOME...but the
deal may just be as crooked as they come.

[The Vast Right Wing]

Let's see, Richard Polanco a senior Democrat had a son that helped negotiate the deals. The deal provides for Oracle selling 275,000 liscences, California only has 230,000 employee's. Within a week of the deal, Gray Davis collected a 25,000 donation from Oracle. Within two weeks of the deal, Attorney General Bill "Spike" Lockyer received 100,000 in campaign donations from Oracle. You tell me if is sounds like a skunk.

[SteelTrap]

If Oracle is the P-51 Mustang of rdbms's, then MSSQL Server is surely the Corsair.

[Grampa Dave]

Maybe the Whoreacle software is too awesome for the average Kali Rat working for the state:

as per an audit: that almost a year into the contract the three state departments involved in the deal were still figuring out how to pay for the software, and that as of mid-March no state workers were using the product.