The New Oracle

Here's a screenshot as well http://cl.ly/K7Cl

A big thanks. I was struggling, early in the morning here on the east coast, to understand what was going on.

It's not fixed here (EU).

Haha, this is the best comment by far.

I lol'ed hard !

Even Oracle can't afford Oracle.

Really, are there any Oracle engineers on HN, even just lurking about?

I can offer some insight into this. Years and years ago, when I had a brief stint in web (I was hungry!), one of the tasks my company (I was a one man company, and still am) was given to was producing content for several local oracle web portals. From what I hear, the workflow is still the same. Basically, content was streamed from Oracle HQ in source images and PDF and text briefs and you made a static html/css pages out of it. Then, you logged into their web thing (weblogic, or what is it called) which resided within app server and had a built cms of sorts into which you uploaded all your source files and referenced them from within that vfs. It was such a mess to do it right. But in a certain way it was neat for branching localizations.

It basically boiled down to having web sites within global websites (hence a lot of duplicate inclusions, yo dawg moments, etc.). Even the master one worked like that (after all it's a localization specific to english). Eventually I set up a smallish lamp server (prior to oracle mysql acquisition) to produce quick one offs (gathering interest for event invitations, polls etc...) since it was impossible to do it right with their system. Also, fun times were had with no preview functionality with their system, so all had to be live and hidden in order to test, but some things eventually broke when they went live, because referencing directories and files were within their vfs, and it lagged quite a bit and was mysterious with cache flush (random).

>>soon rendered irrelevant thanks to emerging technologies

wanna bet?

Pingdom tends to work pretty well.

And http://oracle.com/? redirects there.

Not needed, copyright is implicit, the sign is just decoration.

the copyright date is when the page gets rendered or that's what i'd assume legal would say

I always use the 'canonical' K&R version: "hello, world". No capitalization, no full stop or exclamation mark, comma used before direct address. </quirk> ;)

The exclamation mark would've been there, but it's now closed source, you'll have to buy the new Oracle EM if you want that.