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I heard that Oracle won the America's Cup recently which leads me to give them some unsolicited advice. Put the award on the shelf in your lobby, sell the ten

by beedogs 13y ago

I heard that Oracle won the America's Cup recently which leads me to give them some unsolicited advice. Put the award on the shelf in your lobby, sell the ten million dollar boat and hire the engineers needed to update the Java patch cycle to monthly with the spare cash. 3+ billion devices will thank you. Spot on. Working with their products on a daily basis, I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn't really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat.

andyjohnson0 13y ago
Bryan Cantrill on Oracle: "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it’s very hard to get used to that idea. It’s like, ‘surely this is more complicated!’ but it’s like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity — that’s it! …Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah… you talk to Oracle, it’s like, ‘no, we don’t fucking make dreams happen — we make money!’ …You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ — lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle." [1] [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
pcx66 13y ago
> I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn't really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat. I was helping out a cousin install Oracle on Oracle Linux, and I found it way too complicated to set up. Installing their flagship product on their official distribution was a pain. All they could have done is provide proper repos/rpms. It's sad that they couldn't get that right.
smackfu 13y ago
Personally, I think they ended up getting excellent advertising value for their money. Especially with the win and that being a big news story.

by beedogs 13y ago

andyjohnson0 13y ago

Bryan Cantrill on Oracle: "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it’s very hard to get used to that idea. It’s like, ‘surely this is more complicated!’ but it’s like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity — that’s it! …Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah… you talk to Oracle, it’s like, ‘no, we don’t fucking make dreams happen — we make money!’ …You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ — lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle." [1] [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246

pcx66 13y ago

> I just get the feeling that Oracle doesn't really give a shit about anything other than that god damned boat. I was helping out a cousin install Oracle on Oracle Linux, and I found it way too complicated to set up. Installing their flagship product on their official distribution was a pain. All they could have done is provide proper repos/rpms. It's sad that they couldn't get that right.

smackfu 13y ago

Personally, I think they ended up getting excellent advertising value for their money. Especially with the win and that being a big news story.