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

Zeborah

@RogerBW @garius The great thing about unis is that, as terrible as Oracle is, guaranteed it's still not the worst part of the information architecture.

Shertson

@garius

A product my employer used for a decade was bought out by oracle through another acquisition. Luckily the product was already sunset and there was only a six month overlap between EOL and the acquisition. Two years later we are still fighting bills incurred after EOL date. Sales order vs opportunities something or other. Trying to explain to CFO how Oracle is a money machine not a tech company made me sound like a crazy person. I think he is starting to get it now.

EndlessMason

@garius
Something to talk about in the holidays

Owl Eyes

@garius See? Once in a loooong while, the laws of Kamma actually work in some discernible way.

jlwndski

@garius
Lawsuite Larry has many enemies.

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.