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The original oracle database product is pretty good at some things. Absolutely painful to live with but it has some decent features for an rdbms that others still can't match. Still not worth it in any way.

The latest batch of comic-book villains like Musk and Zuckerberg distracted us from the old-school monsters like Ellison and Marc Andreessen, so rightfully loathed in the 1990s.

Oracle destroyed good hardware and software vendors along the way and nothing would make me happier.

Extra butter. We are gonna need lots and lots of extra butter. For the popcorn and also for the hot buttered rum to go along with it.

Genuinely wild to have watched their straight downward trajectory for years now

end of the ellison dynasty baby

We need the good news now. Thanks.

I think one of my favorite things about entrusting anything financial to Sam Altman and OpenAI is that Altman himself has said he has absolutely no idea how to make money with "AI", but he hopes the "AI" will figure it out for him.

I love how much you love to just absolutely dunk on them.

hmm put options time

The good news here is that they’ll abandon their ludicrous, arrogant and failing hostile takeover of Warner Bros.

Not on my Planet Reebok!

He burned his Hawaiian island to the ground. It follows the pattern: 6 ex-wives, personality disorders, sued for funding genocide, largest antitrust trial in US history, insider trading, holding Project 2025's database, moving hos company to Texas, polluting the planet, & a truly, terrible human.

3/ as such, the common ask for an assignment restriction clause is to say consent isn’t required in the event of the assigning party’s merger or acquisition.

Imagine bankrupting Oracle just being purchased by Broadcom

I'm with you on how irredeemable the AI industry is. But the sheer capital flowing into AI construction is functionally keeping the US out of recession, the "magnificent seven" are carrying the stock market, and the AI bosses have Trump admin connections.

it was making a lot of money until they took on so much debt that now servicing their debt gives them negative cash flow.

Are you familiar with the concept of "profit and loss"? www.theinformation.com/articles/tik...

Here's a hypothetical: the AI bubble bursts and all the big tech companies are facing huge losses. The government decides to repeat TARP with the same amount of money adjusted for inflation, about $700B. They pick you to decide where to spend it to do the most good. Where do you put it?

They made a half-decent rdbms, now obsoleted by postgresql. The rest is white noise.

Ellison is a fucking pig. If he goes down, let's hope he takes CBS and TikTok with him.

The movie lover in me would love to see the FCC void the Netflix-WB merger for “reasons” and the Ellison’s bid from Paramount go kaput bc of Oracle insolvency issues.

Any chance of making Hater’s Guides to Microsoft, Google, AWS?

You're one of my single favorite folks on Bluesky and just generally at the moment.

After a couple of years in a "red stack" environment with everything Oracle, I will never forget much less forgive them. One trip to see Larry on his favorite keynote stage was more than I needed in this life... 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I’ve always hated Oracle with a passion, I can’t wait!

(ok DEC was mainly ruined by Compaq)

Can't wait

And so are my typing skills.

If there's one thing I've learned it's that this country and this system will not let Oracle fail. It may transform in some way, but Trump will bail out his buddy.

I think I’m gonna really enjoy this one

Good? Oracle and Larry deserve to sink

larry betting the farm and loosing is the best case scenario for humanity tbh

Good, piece of shit

An era I most certainly will adore ending.

Worked for Sun then Oracle after the acquisition. Made it 2 years before I bailed. It was miserable. They started right off by taking our Field Service car allowance, which wasn't really much money -- $500 per month. That was just the beginning.

Trump-Ellison-Paramount-CBS. Trump destroys everything he touches. Let him take Ellison along. thehill.com/homenews/med...

TBH, I think Oracle's future is tied to Trump, if Trump fails so will Oracle cause I think only Trump will give them a bail out in the next year or two. Without that level of gov support, Oracle is going to explode just like you are saying.

Oracle's database product has a few things that are quite good. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, because you'd have to buy it from Oracle. But I can see how it could be recommended. Nothing good seems to happen to the things they buy up.

It's been a law firm with a software division.

Is this the actual path towards us being able to stop using the name ECMAscript?

Larry Ellison looks like Gary Cole was attacked by a swarm of bees.

I've been a hater since they devoured like $200 million to fail to build a functional ACA exchange for Oregon.

Ellison sucks, but I wonder why he's decided to be hyper-aggressive about everything all at once. Hubris, thinking he might as well before he dies, age impacting his judgement, wanting to seize the political moment? I hope he lives to see it all blow up, whatever the case.

I also like that he’s DEFINITELY NOT bankrolling his failson’s eventual bankrupting of his toy media company.

Former Cerner employee here that got laid off months before the buyout. Fuck ‘em

Cerner was a falling knife when Larry reached out. They were great at working the client's executives. Not so good at software. Still remember the time an executive got himself locked drunk and naked outside his hotel room in KC.

28 billion here, 28 billion there. Pretty soon you are talking real money.

As an Oracle DBA supporting software that can't use anything else, I'm torn between anxiety at the disruption that the implosion might cause, and wanting Oracle to burn themselves down and piss on the ashes.

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