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It is ?

For 2012 they had revenue of $413 million at a loss of $396 million.

You know what else "sold out". Palm Pre. Microsoft Surface. Nexus Q. Blackberry Playbook.

How are those doing ?

No. These are just the equivalent of "dick and fart" jokes.

Something only a 5 year old would find funny.

Why do you need me ? I am just that crazy troll who believes that no database is perfect for all use cases and that making blind generalisations like "all NoSQL is bad" is stupid. Especially since MongoDB is as different from Cassandra or Riak as it is from Spanner as that is from the other 120+ odd NoSQL databases.

And if benchmarks impress you I suggest you take a look at Cassandra sometime.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/11/benchmarking-cassandra-s...

As interesting as this is do we really need to discuss this on HN ?

The funds transfer/settlement for credit cards can be as short as a few hours as some banks offer same day settlement. And you are being a bit disingenuous with the fraud vulnerability window as chargebacks allow for dispute resolution e.g. where is the item I paid for whilst Bitcoins don't.

Apart from Maps which is going to be interesting the rest of the Google Suite is easily replaceable.

Who cares about the qualification. Your entire premise is just ridiculous.

You can't just take your single data point (my close friends aren't on Facebook) and then extrapolate it (most people aren't on Facebook).

There is no evidence that Go delivers projects quicker than Java.

And Go being so early in its life obviously lacks the wide array of third party libraries that Java does.

Apple uses both Cassandra and Hadoop internally.

And this NIH mentality you've invented is simply not true. You are just confused and probably need to lie down for a bit.

With RSS I often get the entire content or at minimum a decent sized summary with lots of photos.

Twitter has none of that.

There are a number of reasons why Oracle dominates the enterprise and will forever remain so.

One. The products are well understood. Not just from a technical perspective but operationally as well. Generally enterprise companies have dedicated DBAs either in house or on call. Two. There are unlimited support options. Three. Almost all enterprise software works with Oracle and many are only supported for use on Oracle.

You ARE seeing open source adoption in particular MongoDB, Cassandra in specific areas of the business. But they are almost exclusively "non-core business".

What exactly are you implying ?

I am starting to get the impression that a high percentage of people on here have never worked in an office before.

Me. Because I am not 5 years old.

So when I am at an event representing my company I act on my best behaviour. It's called basic professional conduct.

This is a group with a noble cause trying to increase the frankly disgraceful percentage of women in technology. And you label them as discriminatory ?

I take it you also oppose cancer groups then.

Scala will easily dominate the JVM largely due to web use cases.

When you have companies like Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare behind it there is that air of credibility and longevity which companies look for when committing to a new technology. Plus the popularity of frameworks like Play doesn't hurt.

I work for an enterprise company (10K employees) and you are spot on.

Oracle will forever dominant HR, Payroll, SCM, Billing, FM etc type systems where more often than not they have custom software on top of it that has been built exclusively for Oracle. There is simply no good reason to switch. If anything the threat to Oracle will come from hosted apps e.g. Salesforce.

But what I've been seeing in our company is MongoDB dominating front end web apps and Datastax/Cassandra for more of the big data, analytics type workloads.

Oracle should be far more concerned with Amazon Web Services.

Actually I suspect the reason Datastax is growing is less because of Cassandra but more because they are one of the only cohesive enterprise class database, analytics and search platforms around. Having Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr in a tightly coupled, well supported package is pretty compelling.

Very mature neya. Feel free to actually address my points on their merits without resorting to ad hominem attacks. That way everyone wins.

And I comment on lots of different things but have a stronger interests in Apple and Database. So sue me I guess.

And I will definitely miss the weekly "PostgreSQL is all you need and you're stupid to use anything else" threads.

My position is that there a lot of different products out there that cater for different needs and there is no "one size fits all" solution. I can scale Cassandra out to a hundred nodes in minutes on EC2 with no configuration changes. I also have queries in MongoDB that are literally 50x faster than on a SQL database.

PostgreSQL does NOT have the capacity to scale enormously and to scale at all is far more complex than products like Cassandra or Riak.

http://labs.spotify.com/tag/postgresql/

And MySQL Cluster is a cohesive, built-in, well supported version for scaling MySQL. PostgreSQL has no equivalent.

    While some larger corporations might not let you through the HR filter

I've worked for quite a few large corporations i.e Fortune 50 and not a single one has done a police record check. Unless you are applying for Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NSA or something similar it frankly is none of their business.

Some NoSQL databases e.g. Cassandra scale better and are easier to manage than some SQL databases e.g. PostgreSQL.

http://labs.spotify.com/2013/02/25/in-praise-of-boring-techn...

It wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft is behind this.

After all Google/Motorola did demand a ridiculous royalty rate of 2.25% of the entire cost of a PC just to license their H.264 patents.

   Google's core business model is that of mass market and driving eyeballs to ads. Reader did not fit within the confines of their model any more.

So we should all look forward to Keep, Drive, Maps, Docs, Now, Glasses, Self Driving Cars and their many other products being discontinued sometime soon ?

How would you like it if Google discontinued Gmail ? Because that's what Reader is like it to me and many others. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean others don't.

And I fail to see what is "interesting" about Keep/Drive. Both are poor copies of products that have been around for years.

I have hundreds of starred articles which unless someone makes a replacement for Google Reader is going to disappear come July. For me it's like losing years worth of bookmarks.

And I hope that you post the same thing if/when Google discontinues Google Mail.

It actually started when Larry met Steve Jobs and was recommended he focus his efforts.

Ever since then it's been all about Google+ and finding new ways to force feed to everyone.

You are missing the point. Google Reader was also an API.

And there has been this assumption with Google that they would keep their APIs available. Especially for something a innocuous as an RSS API. But that doesn't seem to be the case.