i worked at excite.com right after the IPO, and front and center in the HQ building was a MASSIVE glass wall showcasing the oracle data warehouse machine room.

i worked at excite.com right after the IPO, and front and center in the HQ building was a MASSIVE glass wall showcasing the oracle data warehouse machine room. i didn't enjoy working w/either the datastore directly, or the DBA team that ran it either. an early, more old-white-dude "i just want to serve 5T"