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1. gchamonlive · 1790335420 · 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 · 1790336197 · 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. joshstrange · 1790347414 · focus · HN ↗

         &gt; best relational database

         Hard disagree. Oracle&#x27;s database will always live in my mind as a complete waste of money. Some con-man, I&#x27;m sorry salesman, sold a previous (idiot) executive on it at a previous company I worked for. The exec was long gone and lots of time was wasted trying to adapt our application (that used MySQL) over to Oracle until we finally pulled the plug. But not after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on time and equipment. We re-purposed the hardware into effectively a big NAS.

         1. amluto · 1790366118 · focus · HN ↗

            In maybe 2004 I developed a small application using Python and Oracle. It was miserable. Admittedly I paid all the little costs (figuring out how to connect in the first place, waiting many seconds for the client library to initialize itself, etc) and got no benefits whatsoever from scale. Even back then, MySQL would have been far better, and early-2000s-MySQL was pretty bad.

            I’ve heard that at least the Oracle client is not as bad these days.

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