As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius the more things change the more they stay hating oracle
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius Just got an all-staff email at the university: no new transactions (expenses, purchases, etc.) for a month while they set up some new Oracle thing. I sent them a message of condolence.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius My teenager and I had the Oracle talk last night. She literally only knew them as the Red Bull sponsor
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius Ellison, the Midas of shit.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius when I delenda est lately it has usually been Harmony Gold. But, Oracle delenda est is never out of season.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius Oracle, to me, are the trailblazer for so many tech companies. One good product, lots of duff ones, and a reputation for buggering up any “good” software that they bought up…
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius That reason why? One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius some traditions should be kept
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius 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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@garius 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.
@garius 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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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius The technology changes. The Oracle experience remains timeless.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius it’s like 1999 all over again
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius Everyone in the IT industry has at least one Oracle story. Mine is that Sun Microsystems won an intranet contract with us using their Portal and app-server. Right after this Oracle bought them and killed both products. The Sun rep recommended we switch to Liferay (which also supported Java portlets) but that did not scale at all… Some of the other Sun products escaped into Forgerock (OpenIDM, OpenAM and OpenDS) luckily.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius I was studying for my SQL exams (Oracle DBA) on 9/11. Correlation does not mean causation, but...
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius all these clowns about to find out Larry Ellison is yet another serial sexual abuser.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
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@garius Everyone in the IT industry has at least one Oracle story. Mine is that Sun Microsystems won an intranet contract with us using their Portal and app-server. Right after this Oracle bought them and killed both products. The Sun rep recommended we switch to Liferay (which also supported Java portlets) but that did not scale at all… Some of the other Sun products escaped into Forgerock (OpenIDM, OpenAM and OpenDS) luckily.
