sorry, don't have a link to the CEO telling us that we were signing a partnership with oracle that included the indemnification.

I was just a lowly support engineer so not privy to all the legal details that the executives were dealing with. I too had to just take them at their word.

ETA: I searched a bit. Here's a link

https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/networking/netapp-thr...

Maybe threats were enough? I certainly wouldn't want to test it myself.