What a world we live in when there's a market for a company providing this service. Oracle is truly a disgusting company. They offer a very generous cloud computing package but you'd have to be insane to build on it.
Absolutely. I've seen companies get into major trouble building on Oracle products, then when renewal time comes the prices triple and they literally can't afford it. One company I consulted with in 2000 just shut down rather than renew with Oracle. They were a smallish startup and the Oracle costs blew the budget out of the water, they decided to just kill that idea.
And Salesforce is the same. Great product, viscous company. I had a major row with then in '21 over licensing fees during contract renewal negotiations. Details aside, the exec I dealt with made it clear they felt they had us over a barrel and had zero desire to help us. I said if we can't even get some flexibility we'll have to move to another product. He literally laughed at me and said he didn't care. So I moved the entire company to a competitor in 45 days. He sent an email a few days before the signing deadline asking when I'd sign it, I said, "we're on another product now so we won't be renewing. You're free to terminate our account at any time. We've removed all sensitive data already." He called my cell several times a day for two weeks after that. I never answered.
Isn't that exactly what this guy did? Didn't try to pretend to be a friend, told GP honestly what he was doing.