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[–] 51 points 2 months ago

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. 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.

— Brian Cantrill

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    How can you lose over twenty thousand employees and still have a functioning business?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    They can't. They will rehire/backfill a fraction of it back a year from now at lower salaries.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This video might help:

    What does Oracle actually do?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW80Yjib7RA

    TBH I still don't get it, no one I know would ever use their shitty overpriced garbage database but somehow apparently it's so entrenched in several megacorps that they pay megabucks to Oracle instead of simply moving away to a cheaper alternative

    Confuses the hell out of me

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    The problem is probably hidden in the "simply" part. A huge IT infrastructure built on one tech stack isn't easy to migrate to another one, it'd cost a lot and all those things that currently "just work" might stop working. And then you're on a new tech stack and who knows whether it'll work as well as Oracle has been so far? As long as Oracle keeps the lights on their existing customers will likely stick with them out of inertia.

    That won't necessarily get them new customers, though, and if those new customers instead pick some other tech stack they now face the same challenge trying to get them to come to Oracle. So we'll see how things work out for them in the long run.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Oh noes! My ORCL!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I commute past the Oracle campus in silicon valley every other day and it's been a ghost town for years. They did move there HQ to texas, but they still have so much office space that they don't use.

    Someone could probably steal there boat out front and no one would notice for a week. picture of Oracle campus with boat out front

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Ellison is such a great guy. Funding the IDF with his own money to perpetrate a genocide. Really, hope oracle pulls through. Great company great people

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