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It's not even their first migration away from Oracle. I am fairly confident that Google used the horrible Oracle Calendar internally fifteen years ago (at least
by the-rc 6y ago
It's not even their first migration away from Oracle. I am fairly confident that Google used the horrible Oracle Calendar internally fifteen years ago (at least for travel?), until later GCal was able to replace it. And I remember another finance-related migration ten years ago or so, during the Pichette days. I thought they had gotten rid of Oracle once and for all, maybe it returned through the backdoor — an acquisition.
- thatoneguy 6y agoYeah, I started at Google in early 2006 and definitely remember using the awful Oracle Calendar product for all calendaring. I know because I set up a calendar entry in Oracle Calendar for the day in 2015 that Back to the Future takes place...only to have to create it again once we moved to Google Calendar. Re: finance, I remember using Oracle iExpense around the same time for business expenses and then at some point a couple years later we switched to another company's product. I don't think it lasted until the Pichette days, though...I'm almost certain it was replaced during Reyes' tenure as CFO and before Pichette got installed around 2008.
- dekhn 6y agothat product was Steltor Calendar Time which then was purchased by Oracle. For the time, it wasn't terrible (it supported sync to palm pilot). But yes, GCal is a real improvement.