I appreciate your effort to provide a balanced retort. I'll be extremely blunt: all the bad things you've heard about Oracle are about 95% true. I've been in meetings where someone from compliance suggested all "uncertain" customers (accounting-wise) be subject to a rigorous audit... with the comment added "we can probably squeeze a few mil easily this quarter out of the base". Most of the company does not behave like a healthy business. The parts that do perform well are usually walled off from the ridiculous bullshit.
source: was a PM for a BU that was acquired by Oracle
source: was a PM for a BU that was acquired by Oracle