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Oracle is like America. Its not all the same. The database itself is now one of the most rock solid pieces of software ever built. Other products - yeah, less s

• SahAssar 8y ago
  I think this is perhaps referencing a recent HN comment about the code quality of Oracle DB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941
  • abraae 8y ago
    Ha, that's pretty interesting. Not too sure how much credit to give it though based on this: > It takes 6 months to a year (sometimes two years!) to develop a single small feature (say something like adding a new mode of authentication like support for AD authentication). There's no way in the world I would have imagined that adding AD authentication to any database would be a "single small feature".