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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@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.
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.
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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 See? Once in a loooong while, the laws of Kamma actually work in some discernible way.
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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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Lawsuite Larry has many enemies. -
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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 only thing Oracle predicts is "Things we touch will turn to shit. Expensively"
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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 oracle is the primary reason I'm on Solaris 10 1/13 with the 2021-10 p[atch, not the 2026-01 patchset. bastards
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@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 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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@garius it might be time to go back and rewatch Brian Cantrill's "don't anthropomorphise Larry Ellison" talk
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius This.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius 35 years here. The reasons have varied over the years but it’s been well over half my life of fuck those guys
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@MakeAppPie @garius no, he has a house on land stolen from Indigenous Hawai'ians.
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@MakeAppPie @garius no, he has a house on land stolen from Indigenous Hawai'ians.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@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 .
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
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.
