Worked at Oracle for 6 years. IMO the company is incredibly authentic. Cares about a lot about making money for Larry, doesn’t care that much about the customer, etc. Always had this “you always know where they stand feel”. It’s kind of sad that today these are how good traits after years of “be authentic!” and “find your passion” sermons.

Contrast this will the duopoly of Facebook and Google. Robbing the world blind while also wanting credit to be the “good guys” and who totally “aren’t evil”.

FWIW Oracle employs 150,000 people at about a 150 B market cap. Facebook employs 17,000 people at a 450 B market cap.

Oracle is bad in many ways, but it’s slowness and inefficiency does not represent a threat to global democracy and stability like Google and Facebook do.

ALSO: Oracle has hired about 15,000 liberal arts graduates over the last 4 years as part of their “Class Of” program. Many of these people, and I worked with them, would not be in the middle-class today if it weren’t for Oracle considering their degrees/background. Program has had mixed success, but in a time when all companies either want a CS degree of 3-5 years work experience, I’ve never forgotten what an opportunity Oracle offered those people.