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[–] 123 points 1 year ago (1 child)

One
Rich
Asshole
Called
Larry
Ellison

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Oracle makes the worst database system ever imagined by anyone ever. Can't even insert multiple rows in the same statement, you have to put multiple insert statements and Oracle sues you for dreaming about any other database.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Techs like to deride sales and managers for incompetence. But Oracle is proof that salesmanship and suits can take garbage and make billions.

    I remember around 1990 when Oracle handled their tech problems by making it illegal to review their product. ( You had to purchase their product to use it or be sued. And the purchase agreement required that you not publish a review of the product without their approval or be sued.)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I would argue that selling a product that engineers need to create and maintain at great cost to the company (both monetary and in terms of frustration etc) and customer relations is in fact incompetence.

    or at least that's how I see if from my own dealings with the sales guy at work. "okay yes I see you have an idea, but can we nail down a product definition, describe where we add value, and identify how it is different than these two other globally established products on the market right now?" nope, all he could do was be a little bitch about it. apparently he had customers lined up, though.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    and Oracle sues you for dreaming about any other database.

    What's this?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Oracle sues for everything, when they sue you, they can ask for their payment to be related to the total employees of the company, to take that as users of the Oracle Database (trademark)(copyright)(shat my pants) or Java (do I need to repeat?). Yeah, they sue for EVERYTHING.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Can I get an article/source about this? I'm in the mood to be mad about Oracle

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I can chime in here with “my former employer hired a full-time lawyer after being sued by Oracle over something trivial”. Company of less than 200. They settled and they still have at least one permanent legal staffer.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    The video glances at this, but this happened where I work, so I can't give the direct sources for the case against the place I work, but if even the Oracle employees talk about the draconic bullshit Oracle does, imagine what happens to the companies/governments they sue.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oracle licenses software by CPU (or at least they did). But not in the way you think, they mean by discrete logical CPUs. So if you virtualize one of their apps and give the VM 4 CPUs, do you need four licenses? No, since it could run on any of the CPUs in the host, you need to buy however many that is.

    I went to look for more info on this and couldn't find anything reliable, but I did find an article from Amazon saying that if you run something like this in AWS, you need enough licenses to cover the entire goddamn AWS zone.

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    This is one of the issues with the tech side of their business. They've been around a long time, and certain features that other databases had in the 90s were just put into Oracle a few years back. Devs don't always have a good handle on the new capabilities, especially when the old code without the feature is done and working.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I cannot imagine any business leader crunching the numbers and concluding it's better to stay with Oracle. I would order an all-hands-on-deck effort to rejigger the company database needs to get out from under these parasites.

    Only explanation I got it that they are unwilling to stall current projects and/or hire more backend devs while sorting it out. And yes, I am well aware it's a monstrous task, even for a small company.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A friend of mine was working on decommissioning Oracle at his company for the past year or two. The company bought some software that was using Oracle years ago. Turns out it was relying heavily on DB procedures and to ditch Oracle they had to move all this logic out of it first. They tried to do it couple of times before but failed. The software works so this work had low priority and would be scraped eventually to focus on more important things. On like a 3rd try they finally managed to do it and are now Oracle free.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    SAP does this too. I watched as a ‘license enforcement’ mob conjured up an ‘ indirect user ‘ concept to charge a top 10 ( in our country) client $10million for misusing SAP software for payroll and finance. The group was called Global Customer Assistance or some similar euphemism. It was all bogus. The client immediately started a program to rip out all SAP software. To my knowledge this is now complete. This customer abuse program was started when a number of senior execs moved from Oracle to SAP in the US.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Much like Vampires, no sane person should ever invite Oracle into their home: Both are bloodsucking parasitical leeches, and you'll never be rid of the affliction.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Sounds like Ransomware

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] [S] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It's the name of the channel, not a description of what Oracle does (hence the pipe between them). I edited the title to add a bit more context and make it more clear that they do not, in fact, do good work.

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  • [+] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • Big businesses are all in cahoots with each other.

    Everything is so expensive so they can spend that money on each other.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    My job only exists because it was cheaper to hire several thousand tech workers to replace all the oracle products in house over several years than to keep using Oracle lmao

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    FUCK ORACLE

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oracle makes money. They don't care how.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Like backend Nintendo no it's not at fun as it sounds

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    That reporter is distractingly handsome

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