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One thing Oracle doesn't seem to understand is that the whole "milk it till it's dry" strategy won't last forever. Everything they touch is a catastrophe. Ora
by alfalfasprout 10y ago
One thing Oracle doesn't seem to understand is that the whole "milk it till it's dry" strategy won't last forever.
Everything they touch is a catastrophe.
Oracle database? Bloated, absurdly expensive, and blown away by PostgreSQL. If you really want bulletproof reliability and absurd throughput then DB2 on a mainframe is a better choice.
Virtualbox? Bloated, slow, and much more buggy than VMware's offerings.
ERP software? Companies could save tons of money using a custom solution and even if you are so massive you need something like Oracle's ESP SAP's offering is infinitely better (and cheaper).
Java? Don't even get me started on Java...
- inhumanellison 10y agoAnd yet they bought java along with all of sun with the money they made doing just that. Their strategy works. They're not kind or well thought of in the dev community - have they ever been? They don't care. They're interested in having enterprise decision makers on their side.
- astrodust 10y agoDon't forget MySQL. It's not that Oracle ruins properties, the same could be said of Microsoft over the years, but that they tastelessly ruin them. Bundling the Ask Toolbar with Java is absolutely insulting. Not even Adobe stoops that low.
- yrro 10y agoHudson too...