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You don't know what Oracle does? What?

I mean, it's a fair question. I think a lot of people would think of the RDBMS, but obviously they don't have 180k people working on that. They do all sorts of other stuff as well, of course, but I'm not sure people necessarily think of that when they hear 'Oracle'.

A database, plus American SAP, plus a sort of also-ran AWS-type thing, plus the sad remains of Sun, is about it.

they lease a lot of data center space to GCP/AWS/Azure effectively taking on capex.

Yes, I don't know what they do and I'm totally not ashamed

They sell unsexy infra. For example, if you are a retailer everything from the POS system to the accounting system behind it to the ERP system that sits on top of that.

Absolutely terrible products to work with both from a user and developer standpoint, but once they are up and running they are built like tanks.

Ever heard of JDE?

AFAIK they mostly sue other companies and occasionally write some software.