Re: In a year or two....
" In a year or two.... ...Oracle will up the cost 10 fold"
This is NOT the Oracle cost. This is the cost to implement the change over from one lot of Oracle (on prem customized to you-know-where and back so it might as well be bespoke) to Oracle SaaS.
The Oracle cost was i believe in a previous Reg story. It cant be "upped" because its a per employee per year basis.
This is standard stuff, you buy your s/w or rent your SaaS from Vendor A, then you go out to Vendors A through Z to come up with an implementation cost and a business change cost.
And since Vendor A in this case is Oracle, its implementation costs are not the cheapest, so they picked someone cheaper or in this case, Accenture AND someone cheaper. Hopefully not too much cheaper because IME "too cheap" ends up in the end as ... ...... ..... 10x the cost :-)