As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.

MacCruiskeen

@zeborah @RogerBW @garius We have sharepoint now too.

Darth Osler

@garius the only thing Oracle predicts is "Things we touch will turn to shit. Expensively"

Faraiwe

@garius

Ra (Freya) (it/its)𒀭𒈹𒍠𒊩

@garius oracle is the primary reason I'm on Solaris 10 1/13 with the 2021-10 p[atch, not the 2026-01 patchset. bastards

Steven Lipton

@emma @garius well he does have his own island…

Maho 🦝🍻

@garius wait, what happened

jz.tusk

@lemgandi @garius

Fuck Oracle and all, but if they don't know how to put a constraint on a column I gotta wonder if there was ever any hope.....

jz.tusk

@johncc @garius

Came here looking for "you wouldn't hate a lawnmower, would you?". Thanks for keeping things real.

Pixelcats⁷

@garius This.

Kevin Archie

@garius 35 years here. The reasons have varied over the years but it’s been well over half my life of fuck those guys

Emma needs ☕️ and paying work

@MakeAppPie @garius no, he has a house on land stolen from Indigenous Hawai'ians.

Steven Lipton

@emma @garius yes, I was going to put a stolen Island, but given the context I did leave that part out.

Ellyse

@garius@mastodon.me.uk god i remember installing oracle from scratch and asking myself why does it have to be so hard ? i just wanted a dev database. now i just use sqlite for all dev work. funny because i also used illustra which sort of became the postgres. that thing used to crash all the time .

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@garius

Aside from the solarcide, I didn’t really have much ire towards Oracle. They were awful towards their customers but their products were so expensive that anyone who was an Oracle customer could have easily afforded to not be an Oracle customer. In contrast, a load of other big tech companies were abusive to people who weren’t their customers, or to people who were their customers only because they had no other choice.

Phil Haigh

@gulfie @garius
That's what happens when companies have some really good success, they expand and turn everything new around them to shit.

Phil Haigh

@duckwhistle @garius On the plus side their purchase of BEA probably accelerated the move away from the full stack J2EE architecture to much lighter weight, simpler alternatives.

Shirley Eugest

@garius
I wonder when they will figure out that Bill Gates is horrible, not because he met Epstein, but because he built Microsoft on his theft of other people's intellectual property.

Abstract Equilibrium

Free Tier VPS is sooo generous though!!1!

Kagan MacTane (he/him)

@mapache @garius 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.

Phil Greer

@garius

I miss Sun Microsystems...