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> But Musk got started by confounding x.com/PayPal, which does have very similar engineering needs as Twitter. But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron mac
by apavlo 4y ago
> But Musk got started by confounding x.com/PayPal, which does have very similar engineering needs as Twitter.
But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them.
- beachy 4y ago> But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them. Oracle on IBM big iron is a pragmatic (but expensive) way to achieve a highly vertically scalable database platform. Not trendy at all but also not a bad technology position to be in, even now.