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This was something I never considered, but reminds me of the Larry Ellison tactic of never naming anything v1, or the concept that because something costs the m
by daniellarusso 6y ago
This was something I never considered, but reminds me of the Larry Ellison tactic of never naming anything v1, or the concept that because something costs the most, it therefore must be the best.
- tluyben2 6y agoWell, Oracle was (not sure if they still are) one of these companies. Some of their products we used in the past where artificially bloated and packed over multi CDs etc to make it all look bigger.
- dolmen 6y agoOracle was cofounded by... Larry Ellison.
- lanstin 6y agoIf all the readers don’t just know this, I am old and full of useless knowledge. A good read to understand Ellison’s persona in the 90s is here: https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/53011.htm https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/53011.htm Particularly flinging $100 bills at peasants and how RDBMS set pricing for their products. If you do have an implicit awareness of Oracle and their tactics, you will find this an amusing piece of nostalgia when people were starting to understand just how to build efficient and nice web sites in the 1997 time frame.
- daniellarusso 6y agoSpeaking of 90s, remember the Greenspun AOLserver courses?
- lanstin 5y agoI loved Greenspun. So funny but so clear on how to make stuff work efficiently. My first threaded program I wrote professionally was a n extension to AOLserver to let the TCL layer speak the AOL flap protocol back to the backend. Got it working in few days but couldn’t get three simultaneous threads working for like a month. My boss at the time was like (once I finished it) don’t worry, software is late. My first project in the no threads server framework took six hours start to finish.