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Comment by _dark_matter_

4 days ago

I'm as skeptical as anyone, but have you ever heard of companies like Oracle, which got rich off a database or Snowflake (current market cap 65B)? Companies pay oodles of money for that capabilities.

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thrown-0825  4 days ago

oracle succeeded because of its lobbyists and sales contacts, so much so that they spun out into another multi billion $ org

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