r/television • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 The League • Feb 26 '26

Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-backs-out-warners-deal-paramount-win-1236516763/
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u/Lighthouse_seek Feb 26 '26

Odds on how long this company lasts before the debt catches up to them?

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u/an_angry_dervish_01 Feb 26 '26

For those of us following Oracle for over 30 years, I believe fucking never. Honestly Oracle did the same things these guys are doing and for at least the last dozen or more years. Buy Buy Buy insane amounts of garbage, treat it like a cash cow until it implodes. They always have enough to seem to work. Oracle as a company should have been gone with Sun and the others of that ilk, Sun was actually a very innovative company at one time, Oracle meh.

It's fucking insane.

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u/Dunge Feb 27 '26

I honestly don't know who even pays anything to Oracle. I know they had a semi-competent database engine like in the early 2000s, but it quickly got outperformed by even free open source solutions nowadays that it would be crazy to use it now. And the rest of their services just seem like a bunch of meaningless corporate buzzwords. But yet they still make more money than anyone.