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Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow

james
@jamesjhare.com

Oracle's only real innovation in the last 20 years has been increasingly hostile licensing terms and more invasive audits. That's all they have. Not surprising that Larry is trying to find another golden goos.

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Ben L
@bnej80.bsky.social

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.