> But Musk got started by confounding x.com/PayPal, which does have very similar engineering needs as Twitter.
But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them.
But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them.
Oracle on IBM big iron is a pragmatic (but expensive) way to achieve a highly vertically scalable database platform. Not trendy at all but also not a bad technology position to be in, even now.