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The people who make purchasing decisions love them. As long as you pay the ransom, Oracle loves you back. The lawyers can be very friendly if you know to stay on their good side.
However when I worked there it was extremely comfy, so as an employer I would rate it very highly. Very remote friendly too!
today I would say Microsoft holds the crone again
partially because they got so good at tricking people temporary into believing they are not
through that is looking at the western world, if you look beyond but using wester values like privacy then the crone probably gets passed to ByteDance
Sad how Microsoft doesn't get the reactions it deserves anymore. Probably the single most harmful entity to computing.
Why do you think so? I did think this too until about 6 years ago but with them basically buying all of open source and AI, I kind of can’t help but use and love the products they now own. What damage to they currently do?
Oracle? The law firm with an IT department?
as ex-Oracle, likely no more evil than the FAANG (or whatever they're calling themselves), but those who hate it, really hate it
Often they will even acquire companies to expand the rent seeking empire.
Their flagship product has strict legal requirements that you are never allowed to publish benchmarks of comparable systems and believe me they have the legal force on staff to pursue you indefinitely.
They very much deserve the reputation they have.
Google, Microsoft et al. throw the community a bone with loss leaders and generate good will by not being especially litigious.
Netflix is basically not evil in any definable way.
Apple is divisive; their biggest issue is that they are awful to work for and have mastered the art of audience segmentation which is why they can charge $400 for 8G of RAM. Which to many feels evil.
Oracle is easily the worst of these.
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Why do you think so? I did think this too until about 6 years ago but with them basically buying all of open source and AI, I kind of can’t help but use and love the products they now own. What damage to they currently do?
Could you post a few examples of what good they did to open source? Genuinely curious.
https://opensource.microsoft.com/projects/
They also added a “Sponsor” button to Github which while I have mixed feelings about it, does help open source projects thrive.