PR 10/18 0809 ORACLE INTRODUCES SOFTWARE TOOL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
Oracle should shange it's corporate motto to: "Oracle, bringing Big Brother to life" or something similar. The problem with this sort of software is that it is virtually made to be abused. It is very, very obvious that the profit motive and the reassurances of LEO's have totaly blinded any shred of ethics the corporation might have once entertained. My reaction to this is simple. In the 70's, it was acceptible reasoning for computer professionals to not work in certain sectors of the industry because they didn't want to be a part of the "military industrial complex". The 90's version of that is simply not to buy products from vendors who engage in unacceptible practices. Oracle clearly falls in this latter catagory. I had been looking very strongly at specifying a DB made by one of Oracles competition due to experience with it's nightmarish installation procedures, but this pretty much clinches the deal where nothing else would. The funny thing here is that since this is just a current sale, and since there's allready plenty of technical reasons to look at competing products, I'd bet even money that over a relativly short amount of time I can offset ALL of the sales for this odious LEO product alone. I would encourage others to do the same.