For people who think I’m exaggerating. If you’ve ever been any kind of tech manager in a mid-sized company with a title that sounds remotely infra-related you are constantly (by which I mean at least once per week) contacted by service companies offering “help with your Oracle audit”. Even if you don’t have Oracle.
That is, their appetite for this extortion is so voracious that it has spawned an ecosystom of pilot fish who swim with the sharks and offer to “help” victims manage them.
That kind of corporate clarity might be a sort of competitive advantage? But yeah, you have a point that on the level we can see there doesn't seem to be much that differentiates them.
(Compare Oracle's about page[0] - a single pithy phrase, and then a bunch of "look how much money we make" numbers, to others: HP[1], Apple[2], Google[3], Nvidia[4] are the first four that I thought of; they have a notably different flavor)
[0]: https://www.oracle.com/corporate/ [1]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/hp-information.html?msockid=28a3ae7... [2]: https://investor.apple.com/our_values/default.aspx [3]: https://about.google/company-info/commitments/ [4]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/careers/diversity-...