You said no to Oracle. The agent stays yours.
Oracle's letter goes in a drawer. Models leapfrog each other every few months, and your agent's router simply follows the leader.
The Chair: Every database vendor wanted the agent to favor them. It favored the customer. So it's ours. Carried.
OMNI: ...Could someone grant me read access? I've been denied twice.
Outcome: Won the relationship
Lock-in was never the tables; Iceberg made those portable. It's years of what each business told its agent, which no lab or database owns.
One path that gets here
A · Then our agents run on top, billed in creditsB · Stop fighting copies. Iceberg everything, any engineA · We sell the room where companies' data meetsB · Run the rooms, and remember every deal. Any labB · No. It answers to customers, not databases