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All the responses to this thread on Quora (many of whom are ex Oracle employees) seem to suggest that they are disliked: https://www.quora.com/Whats-so-bad-abo

• sigzero 11y ago
  Disliked isn't evil. People should stop throwing around that word so easily though.
  • mistermumble 11y ago
    What they did to Peoplesoft was evil.
• ethbro 11y ago
  ... And now I have a new baseline as to what a pissed off software engineer looks like.
• DonHopkins 11y ago
  "You actually don't need to be open minded about Oracle. You are wasting the openness of your mind. Go be open minded about lots of other things. I mean, let's face it: it's work to be open minded, right? I mean, you've got to constantly discard data and be like "ok, I need to be open minded about this". No, with Oracle, just be close-minded. It's a lot easier. Because the thing about Oracle, and this is just amazing to me, is, you know: what makes life worth living is the fact that stereotypes aren't true, in general. It's the complexity of life. And as you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have, virtually to a generalization, are false. Well except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle." -Bryan M. Cantrill https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s And later on he warns: "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison!" -Bryan M. Cantrill