> I was making a remark on Oracle's insinuating tone "Your developers are probably poorly skilled, your not going to change that, using new tools require new skills, you'll fail at that because your not Google - don't even try"

That "insinuation" is mostly true.

> Regardless of my personal opinions, what happened to striving for excellence?

Striving for excellence in everything is bad business.

Excellence is expensive. In many cases, the expense far outweighs the benefits.