If the Republicans want to keep cutting school and government funding, expect this type of thing. Oracle database and server seats can easily cost 10's if not 100's of thousands of dollars per server depending on how many cores and what features are employed. These are the first things "to go" when looking at a funding crisis. Then you pay for the support of that which (correct me if I'm wrong) includes patches and updates. I live in Virginia where our former Republican governor was just found guilty of 11 counts of corruption and gutted our schools. The teachers literally buy their own teaching materials (and took hefty pay cuts) and the parents have to buy school-mandated school planners and other BS that used to be purchased with the taxes that I already pay to the schools.
Most States Funding Schools Less Than Before the Recession
Republicans Slash Public Education to Fund Tax Cuts For Millionaires and Corporations
The hospitals have no excuse though and should be fined. They are making obscene profits.
As for the ACA (Obamacare - A republican given name) the Republicans have done everything in their power to repeal and cut funding to the ACA, and almost any public service for that matter. How about transportation spending? They want to and have been somewhat successful in cutting that too... See, they want to privatize everything and have no government.. so if they cut it down to a level where it no longer works they can point and say "See! We should privatize!", but they are the corrupt problem that causes the failure - Just my two cents.
The Democrats are corrupt too.. so don't take me as some extreme liberal. I have no interest in debating politics other than to say we need to get money out of politics in totality. I'm not happy with our system because it is corrupt.. there is no "good" or better party, they are one in the same. It's up to us, the people, to fix it. It takes an educated populous and education is severely lacking for not only funding reasons but others policies as well (Standardized testing?).
Also, isn't it funny that people get all upset when their info is "hackable", yet we (as a country) seem to have no problem letting government do whatever the f*** they want to without warrants or probable cause. Our country was founded on THAT principal. We could have the best government ever, with no corruption or shenanigans.. but let us not forget that Presidents have an 8 year shelf life.
Yet another reason NOT to put your data in the "Cloud" as virtually all major corporations are implicit in their involvement with the FISA courts, NSA and CIA. Oracle is just but another corporation that has been forced to put backdoors and whatnot in their hardware and software.
On a final note, you never want to auto-update your servers for mission critical stuff.. it needs to be tested, re-tested and tested again. Otherwise you potentially end up with a problem worse than a vulnerability. It takes man hours and money to roll out patches and run compatibility tests.. don't want to fund it? Fine, get used to news stories like this. After all, Oracle released the patch and notified all of their clients, it's not their fault.
[RANT OVER]
