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That's insane to me. Oracle is just a relational database right? Wonder why that hasn't been migrated long ago. Guess it's just a case of not wanting to touch s

That's insane to me. Oracle is just a relational database right? Wonder why that hasn't been migrated long ago. Guess it's just a case of not wanting to touch something that "works".

TylerE 3y ago
Oracle is a marketing engine for consultants that masquerades as a relational database to get through the front door.
- ForOldHack 3y ago
  Oracle designs, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware products and offers services that complement them (such as financing, training, consulting, and hosting services). So... Lets try that again... Oracle offers services like hosting services, consulting, training, financing, and compliments these with hardware and software products, manufacturing and design. So.. Sales, sales, more sales, coffee, then sales, some sales, and more sales. Oracle is a marketing engine. I am going to call that true.
pstuart 3y ago
It is insane, but it's a reflection of the incentive structure (like everywhere else). Lots of risk with little recognizable upside. It's funny that companies can ostensibly track their expenses down to the penny but can't recognize the costs of technical debt.
chasil 3y ago
Oracle 9i went out of regular patch support in 2007. If you found whatever PC that you were running from this era, would it be slower than your laptop? Very likely.
- organsnyder 3y ago
  I'm pretty sure my smartwatch is more powerful than my 2007-era PC, at least for some metrics.
  - hulitu 3y ago
    > I'm pretty sure my smartwatch is more powerful than my 2007-era PC, at least for some metrics. It syphones your data faster. That's all.
- vbezhenar 3y ago
  I run it in the Windows XP VM running on VirtualBox.
sillywalk 3y ago
Oracle is what happened to a Software Licensing Agreement so complex, that when it was finally completed and signed, it collapsed into a singularity and gained both sentience and an intense desire to destroy any and all good in the world. ?bad grammar?

That's insane to me. Oracle is just a relational database right? Wonder why that hasn't been migrated long ago. Guess it's just a case of not wanting to touch something that "works".

TylerE 3y ago

Oracle is a marketing engine for consultants that masquerades as a relational database to get through the front door.

ForOldHack 3y ago
Oracle designs, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware products and offers services that complement them (such as financing, training, consulting, and hosting services). So... Lets try that again... Oracle offers services like hosting services, consulting, training, financing, and compliments these with hardware and software products, manufacturing and design. So.. Sales, sales, more sales, coffee, then sales, some sales, and more sales. Oracle is a marketing engine. I am going to call that true.

pstuart 3y ago

It is insane, but it's a reflection of the incentive structure (like everywhere else). Lots of risk with little recognizable upside. It's funny that companies can ostensibly track their expenses down to the penny but can't recognize the costs of technical debt.

chasil 3y ago

Oracle 9i went out of regular patch support in 2007. If you found whatever PC that you were running from this era, would it be slower than your laptop? Very likely.

organsnyder 3y ago
I'm pretty sure my smartwatch is more powerful than my 2007-era PC, at least for some metrics.
- hulitu 3y ago
  > I'm pretty sure my smartwatch is more powerful than my 2007-era PC, at least for some metrics. It syphones your data faster. That's all.
vbezhenar 3y ago
I run it in the Windows XP VM running on VirtualBox.

sillywalk 3y ago

Oracle is what happened to a Software Licensing Agreement so complex, that when it was finally completed and signed, it collapsed into a singularity and gained both sentience and an intense desire to destroy any and all good in the world. ?bad grammar?