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Interesting article, what's with the weird sucking up to Larry Ellison at the end though? It was so weird I thought it was sarcasm but it seemed like it might be genuine?

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> it seemed like it might be genuine

It is genuine. Larry and I go way back.

Source: https://youtu.be/_UGUDVeSQSI?t=872

Sorry to hear that.

Ok, you were way too subtle for my first reading or I should have gotten more sleep!

Definitely sarcasm, it's a running gag - see the 2021 and 2022 posts also :)

Old joke in the RDBMS world is why is Oracle RDBMS so expensive? Because how else is Larry going to buy another yacht?

You have to thank Larry for charging so much that all of the other innovation had a reason to happen!

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