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Tax man tells Oracle's Ellison his products "don't work"

Hundreds of customers watch as spat goes out live
By INQUIRER staff
Sat Jul 12 2003, 11:56
A RED FACED Larry Ellison was forced to defend his company and his products after the tax commissioner of Madhya Pradesh, India, went on the offensive at a videoconference earlier this week.

According to Indian newspaper, The Financial Express, Dr Vishwapati Trivedi claimed that Oracle products installed in his tax department, and including Oracle 9i, were defective, and the firm had not replied to earlier complaints.

Trivedi said that the Oracle software was installed in spring last yar and cost Madhya Pradesh Rs 13 crore. A crore is 10 million. And Madhya Pradesh had also paid Rs. 20 lakh for maintenance but pulled that contract after Oracle allegedly failed to respond to the complaints. A lakh is 100,000.

According to the Financial Express, Ellison went on the defensive in front of hundreds of potential Indian customers.

Vishwapati was the first person to tell Ellison that Oracle's database didn't work, the paper reports he responded. µ

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