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As far back as 15 years ago, Oracle had the reputation of being the company where people would come to work, close their office door, and then work on a second
by jennyyang 6y ago
As far back as 15 years ago, Oracle had the reputation of being the company where people would come to work, close their office door, and then work on a second job or side project in peace and quiet. Oracle was/is powered by zero innovation and all enterprise sales.
I thought the idea of Microsoft buying TikTok was funny, but I couldn't think of a company more effective to dismantle TikTok than Oracle.
- nordsieck 6y ago> I thought the idea of Microsoft buying TikTok was funny You're not wrong - it is a little funny. But on the other hand, they have been running LinkedIn (and Github!) pretty successfully, so it's not that ridiculous.
- rabidrat 6y agoLinkedIn and Github are not TikTok :)
- sirspacey 6y agoTrue, but they have both operated independently & incredibly successfully with full support from Microsoft’s leadership. If TikTok had a future, it was at Microsoft.
- cwyers 6y agoAnd Microsoft has a pretty successful consumer products division -- not the cash cow that enterprise sales are to them, but they do have consumer products. Including the Xbox division, which targets a lot of the market that TikTok does. Exactly what direct-to-consumer business targeting people in their teens/early 20s does Oracle have?
- ethbr0 6y ago> Exactly what direct-to-consumer business targeting people in their teens/early 20s does Oracle have? Ah, but therein lies the genius of the purchase. In 40 years, the current TikTok userbase will be technology-hating, risk-adverse VPs -- a prime Oracle demographic. They're just getting in early.
- HeWhoLurksLate 6y agoSpeaking of which, I remember when I thought Minecraft andead because Microsoft bought them.d Mojang were
- HeWhoLurksLate 6y agoSpeaking of which, I remember when my friends thought Minecraft was going to die because Microsoft bought Mojang.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y ago> running LinkedIn pretty successfully Minus the avoidable password breaches
- konjin 6y agoWait Oracle doesn't have open floor plans? I guess I'll be polishing my resume.
- chrisseaton 6y agoWhen I was at Oracle I had a private locking office with a window with a mountain view as an intern.
- Galanwe 6y agoAmazing. When was that?
- chrisseaton 6y ago2013. They’re still in the same offices though. They paid for an apartment and car as well! It’s a great place to be, actually.
- gruez 6y agoHow is that possible? Is there just a really high supply of window offices? ie. does the office building have a really high window to floor area ratio?
- sam_bristow 6y agoIt makes sense when you realise the building is in the shape of a giant pentagram.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThin buildings produce a surprising amount of exterior windows. The last high rise I worked in put most of the common functionality near the core (hallways, bathrooms, elevators, printers) to maximize the amount of work space that had a view. Sadly it was looking out over the West side of Chicago from the West side of the loop, so the view was mediocre even when the weather played nice.
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- chrisseaton 6y ago> Oracle was/is powered by zero innovation and all enterprise sales. Oracle has one of the last couple of proper industrial research labs left in the industry. It regularly publishes at the top venues in multiple fields and funds a lot of academics.
- TeeMassive 6y agoExamples?
- brd529 6y agoUsually they have a paper at Sigmod 2018: https://sigmod2018.org/sigmod_industrial_list.shtml https://sigmod2018.org/sigmod_industrial_list.shtml RAPID: In-Memory Analytical Query Processing Engine with Extreme Performance per Watt 2020: https://sigmod2020.org/sigmod_industrial_list.shtml https://sigmod2020.org/sigmod_industrial_list.shtml Database Workload Capacity Planning using Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning
- techdragon 6y ago[citation needed] Less sarcastically, I’d like to see some examples of this as I have a genuine interest in the topic.
- fca 6y agohttps://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=labs:50:0 https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=labs:50:0
- etaioinshrdlu 6y agoAlso Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM... and others
- lowwave 6y agoThe only reason for Oracle to buy TikTok is purely political. It is a 'truly' us company not a CCP company. And I trust NSA more than I trust CCP.
- pram 6y agoYes when I worked there a guy literally played WoW in his cubicle all day. It was no secret. He didn’t get fired for performance either, just culled in a RIF lol.
- ChuckMcM 6y agoTechnically that would make it a startup incubator :-)
- miahi 6y agoI know people who worked (full time) for Oracle who didn't even need to go to the office, they just did stuff remotely from time to time (never more than one hour/day). They actually had a second full time job that they went to.