That's hilarious, really. In my experience if you want to kill a company have Oracle acquire it. (that may be a bit too cynical)
"You actually don't need to be open-minded about Oracle, you are wasting the openness of your mind [...] As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle."
- Bryan Cantrill, https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2046
Oracle is where things go to die.
RIP TikTok.
Any source for this? I wasn't aware that third party stores are used by the general population as commonly as the play store anywhere.
Another thing is that with such bans, all major ISPs and network carriers are instructed to block the traffic to the related domains, so the app won't work anyway unless they roll out with a lot of changes.
I thought the idea of Microsoft buying TikTok was funny, but I couldn't think of a company more effective to dismantle TikTok than Oracle.
You're not wrong - it is a little funny.
But on the other hand, they have been running LinkedIn (and Github!) pretty successfully, so it's not that ridiculous.
Ah, but therein lies the genius of the purchase.
In 40 years, the current TikTok userbase will be technology-hating, risk-adverse VPs -- a prime Oracle demographic.
They're just getting in early.
Minus the avoidable password breaches
I guess I'll be polishing my resume.
They paid for an apartment and car as well!
It’s a great place to be, actually.
Sadly it was looking out over the West side of Chicago from the West side of the loop, so the view was mediocre even when the weather played nice.
One of the nice things about this pandemic has been how silent my office is. So much easier to keep my head down and churn code / solutions to problems out.
Oracle has one of the last couple of proper industrial research labs left in the industry.
It regularly publishes at the top venues in multiple fields and funds a lot of academics.
2018: https://sigmod2018.org/sigmod_industrial_list.shtml
RAPID: In-Memory Analytical Query Processing Engine with Extreme Performance per Watt
2020: https://sigmod2020.org/sigmod_industrial_list.shtml
Database Workload Capacity Planning using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning
Less sarcastically, I’d like to see some examples of this as I have a genuine interest in the topic.
I'd say they are doing a mediocre job on the whole. But I may just be bitter over recent bugs like renaming a table crashing the server.
Any ideas why?
Today..not worth the price tag. And if you do pay the price tag, you're going to need some high priced DBAs to baby it along.
To your list I would add that with Hudson they achieved such an own-goal that all anyone knows is the renamed fork, Jenkins. (Which I believe was named after Leeroy Jenkins...)
Agreed. Having worked with and delivered some great solutions with Oracle DB in the 2000's, I've been telling people since at least 2010, that Oracle used to be the answer to the question, "which enterprise database?", but now is the answer to "which is the one vendor I should avoid at all costs?"
IIRC, they wanted an English butler name[1] snooty enough to match "Hudson" - and Jenkins fit the bill (you can almost hear the British accent)
Nah. If it were any good then the license wouldn't prohibit you from benchmarking it.
Instead of a license, the SQLite source code offers a blessing:
May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
Oracle software licenses are so opaque that there's almost no way to be compliant and that's by design.
So in essence: Either you pay more for your existing installation or buy some additional shit, which you don't need, or else.
The or else is the threat of a software audit, which is almost guaranteed to find you non-compliant and gives you 30 days to either pay up or get rid of every Oracle software component. Best of luck with that.
There are umpteen stories about this behavior on the web. For example this: [1].
Oracle's business model is not really technology, but a licensing racket for enterprise customers. Sort of
Nice company you have here, would be a shame if something happens to it
[1] https://www.netnetweb.com/content/blog/oracle-audits-will-ge...
edit : rephrased a sentence
Bytedance isn’t actually selling TikTok, and the White House gets its win.
Sun (the company), not Solaris (the OS). But yeah, Java has done relatively well.
Peoplesoft was pretty entrenched when Oracle bought it, and the state of other options in that field remains pretty grim.
Anybody remember PeopleSoft?