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Also very similar to Zoom which also partnered with Oracle and immediately the zoom-is-in-bed-with-the-chinese-communist campaign ended.

Ellison said that Zoom chose Oracle because “we were faster—much faster—and we were much less expensive and we were more secure.” (https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-and-tiktok-why-ceo-l...)

I wonder where I heard this speech-pattern before?

It strains credulity to claim with a straight face that Oracle is much less expensive than its competitors.