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Our startup did, but that was 20 years ago and the Oracle regional office was literally the floor below us.
by swarnie_ 7y ago
Our startup did, but that was 20 years ago and the Oracle regional office was literally the floor below us.
- roel_v 7y ago"Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing", arguably the first book with a how-to for what we'd now call 'internet startups', was about using Oracle and Perl to build web applications. But yeah it was published 1997.
- wmf 7y agoAnd the SPARC/Solaris/Oracle stack is arguably one of the things that brought down ArsDigita a few years later. They couldn't reduce costs to accommodate lower-end customers.
- rwmj 7y ago20 years ago (is it so long??) we looked at Oracle for our start-up but the prices they wanted were ridiculous. We went with Informix instead which was acquired by IBM soon after. So can confirm, startups in the first dot com boom were looking at Oracle or IBM. I wanted us to use PostgreSQL but was overruled by management who thought they knew better.