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[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 82 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Only fools would buy or use Oracle products. They will only ever fuck you over.

The pricing for the 2038 patch is going to be steep.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They didn’t know that when they hard locked themselves into oracle 20 years ago

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm sure Larry will be just fine

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes they laid these folks off for the express purpose of funding more datacenter buildouts because they were not funding banks willing to to loan them the capital.

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm so glad I never pursued Oracle DB as a career, I was considering it at one point in the early 2000s, even went to school. I would have been making a good $100k+ a year instead of struggling along, but at least I still have a soul :P

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago

I mostly used postgres in my work but we had one master server that had to be oracle for reasons so I took a class. The class mostly taught me that I wanted nothing to do with oracle.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 36 points 2 weeks ago

One rich asshole called Larry Ellison

[–] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago

And then they release a Security Patch Update, but don’t release the patches needed until a week later. So I had a document urging me to install an unavailable patch.

[–] c64z86@piefed.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In other words Oracle bosses do something very scummy and blame it on AI, hoping people will be angry at it instead of where the blame really lies.

[–] mereo@piefed.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems Larry wants to be alone with his AI.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Then I hope he dies alone in an AI-psychosis induced spiral.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

This fascist piece of dickskin is just as dangerous as Thiel and musk.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The reverse should be hilarious. Anyone reading this applying for jobs there should not take a fucking offer below premium, because that's what they are trying to do.

[–] siravious@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck that shithole company

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

Your first mistake was working for Oracle. They've always been a shit company.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

~~That’s 10,000 medium-sized businesses closed overnight.~~

~~Goddamn.~~

[–] kcuf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Crap. No. I mean ten.

Okay so i don’t work in accounting! Oof.

[–] onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oracle is in a really bad position financially on ai. Is this the beginning of the downfall?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

No they are banking on the digital ID dystopia across the uk and Europe

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there anyone left at Oracle?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 4 points 2 weeks ago

The best thing that can come out of the implosion of Oracle (other than the influence death of the Ellisons) is that Paramount might escape the grasp of his brother.

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Just proves how dumb they fucking are. Software industry is gonna be a mess real soon.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's going to embrace bankruptcy soon at this rate

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's good, I guess? Most businesses who license Oracle should see their rates go down considerably. Right? /s

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Gotta fund those data centers somehow.

[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

And now they will probably raise prices too.