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Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

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  1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
    A too-big-to-fail about to fail certain it'll be bailed out? Another comment* raised a question about investments in fuel cells that could have been just for show. Are they doing max damage to leech as much cash as possible before implosion or it's just... I mean, it's oracle it's a mystery to me how they make so much money with selling crapware, so it might just be business as usual?

    *<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49842884">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49842884

    1. philipallstar · · focus · HN ↗
      I don&#x27;t love Oracle, but they made so much money selling the best relational database on the planet for 40 years.
      1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
        OracleDB, MongoDB and PHP over IIS natively on a single Windows machine running on Azure. Delicious.
        1. catchnear4321 · · focus · HN ↗
          please don’t trigger my ptsd like that, thanks
          1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
            HN despertely needs a collapsible &quot;spoilers&quot; section in the comments
        2. pepperoni_pizza · · focus · HN ↗
          I&#x27;ve lost count how many &quot;cloud-native application deployed on Azure&quot; at my job have turned out to be this. Installed by random contractors who have since left of course.
          1. gchamonlive · · focus · HN ↗
            It&#x27;s easy to deploy grief and call it a day if you aren&#x27;t the one cleaning up afterwards. On the other hand the blaming mentality never led anyone anywhere so I&#x27;m not really sure how one is to address this.

            My guess would be the cause is unreasonable corporate pressure for productivity, so if this is the case the natural answer would be to give people more time to think about architecture, create incentives for group studies and laboratories and remove incentives that lead to the so called &quot;résumé-driven development&quot;

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