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.
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.
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.
Minus the avoidable password breaches
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.
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.