{"id":2605,"date":"2012-12-02T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2012-12-02T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T14:44:02","slug":"oracles-advertising-needs-to-be-more-truthful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/02\/oracles-advertising-needs-to-be-more-truthful","title":{"rendered":"Oracle&#8217;s advertising needs to be more truthful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wondered how Oracle was getting away with its rather mocking advertising. Usually seen on the front-page of the WSJ on a daily basis. Apparently, they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2012\/11\/30\/oracle-has-problems-telling-the-truth-in-its-advertising\">not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a title=\"An Oracle Ad Mocking SAP by byte, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/2194924083\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2208\/2194924083_14414ab9b5_n.jpg?resize=240%2C320\" alt=\"An Oracle Ad Mocking SAP\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Taken January 14 2008, on the front page of the WSJ<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Oracle%27s%20advertising%20needs%20to%20be%20more%20truthful&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2012%2F12%2F02%2Foracles-advertising-needs-to-be-more-truthful&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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