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in reply to John Bull • • •@piepants Oracle is old evil. None of this new evil.
(Play on old/new money.)
Will Glynn
in reply to John Bull • • •Every once in a while, an Oracle-related salesperson emails me asking to schedule a meeting, usually to pitch me something from a subsidiary. I reply:
"I know better than to become an Oracle customer."
The older salespeople just silently remove me from their list, but I've also had younger salespeople ask me to explain. I always do. Each time I've genuinely been the first person who's explained why someone might specifically wish to _not_ have a business relationship with Oracle.
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Will Glynn
in reply to Will Glynn • • •This goes the other way too: Oracle bought Dyn Inc and we immediately prioritized a migration away. Our account rep couldn't understand: "nothing changed!" "We've been a happy Dyn customer for years, but I can't risk doing business with Oracle. It's time to go."
We left on our terms, and of course then they killed the platform and laid everyone off, because Oracle's gonna Oracle.
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in reply to John Bull • • •I fled the country 23 years ago to escape my role as an Oracle DBA.
Never again.
Stu
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in reply to John Bull • • •And their flagship database is an enormous pile of Crap. Many people feed their families by knowing its quirks and difficulties, but I'd rather be productive.
To give you just one example: Oracle SQL HAS NO BOOLEAN DATA TYPE. The official recommendation is to use a 1 char field. What goes into that? Well, who knows? "Y/N" ? "y/n"? "O/N" if you're french? "1/0"?
In many shops, the result is supposedly boolean fields that contain 3, 5, even 7 different values. Yikes.
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Eric Likness
in reply to John Bull • • •@garius@me.uk And I will never grow tired of Oxide and Friends live stream on Discord doing the occasional dunk on the master yachter, hisself.
Every time they dunk on Larry, an angel gets its wings.
@bcantrill @ahl
Ronald Abadi
in reply to John Bull • • •I disliked it when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. I disliked it when Oracle acquired MySQL. I disliked the dispute over Android and Java.
But, unpopular opinion here, over the years I have kind of really got used to the Oracle database, so yeah, a dilemma for me.
Ed
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in reply to John Bull • • •🔶Mark Nicoll 3.5%🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳
in reply to Phil Haigh • • •That's what happens when companies have some really good success, they expand and turn everything new around them to shit.
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in reply to John Bull • • •So what was the point?
Maho 🦝🍻
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in reply to Maho 🦝🍻 • • •@mapache That's what I came here trying to find out, too! From reading through, it looks like it's just that Oracle bought TikTok, I guess? (And so I guess it's really that the younger generation is*about to* discover, etc., etc., not that they're doing so yet?)
I'd be happy to get more information, if there is any.
John Bull
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in reply to John Bull • •Oracle has always been terrible even before the current controversies; see what they did to OpenSolaris for an example, bastards killed a project that was only a year old at the time.
Granted OpenSolaris is lived on by Illumos/OpenIndiana, which is both a hard fork of and a spiritual successor to OpenSolaris, but still, Oracle killed an infant project when they bought out Sun; that's horrible no matter how you slice it.
OpenSolaris didn't even get to graduate from its proverbial crawling stage ffs.