As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
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@garius Everyone in the IT industry has at least one Oracle story. Mine is that Sun Microsystems won an intranet contract with us using their Portal and app-server. Right after this Oracle bought them and killed both products. The Sun rep recommended we switch to Liferay (which also supported Java portlets) but that did not scale at all… Some of the other Sun products escaped into Forgerock (OpenIDM, OpenAM and OpenDS) luckily.
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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@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 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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As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.
@garius the LOLest moment of the last few years on LinkedIn was explaining to an Oracle sales rep how fucking shit the company was and their historical context for being assholes and him thanking me for the details that weren't clear to him and made his last year of conversations make a lot more sense
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