Does Apple still have a close relationship with Oracle? I wonder if this is related.
OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
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Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#12Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers? Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?
From experience working with these people for many years, it is mostly because they are fuckwits. No joke. Literally no objectivity or capability to reason about logically. The first vendor that gets in the door and shows them a shiny turd and they sign a contract which is difficult to get out of.
Anyone who is technical in those orgs is either very junior and stepped straight in a cow shit out of college, has a pension they are counting down to or is so utterly disinterested that they don't give a shit about anything other than the coffee break or the end of the day.
My capacity in those orgs was the overpaid consultant who came in, looked at what they were doing and told them they were stupid in a huge word document and then leave with a pocket full of cash with no changes ever being made.
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#13Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!"). Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly .
I've found Oracle's free tier quite generous. I guess OpenAI does as well.
It's sort of like a crack dealer's free tier. You know it's going to end miserably but you just can't help yourself.
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#14Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers? Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?
A good sales person on a golf course with a VP can do a lot of damage
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#15So, I guess OpenAI really is evil.
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#16Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers? Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?
You think that voice carries more weight than a golf junket?
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found Oracle's free tier quite generous. I guess OpenAI does as well.
It's sort of like a crack dealer's free tier. You know it's going to end miserably but you just can't help yourself.
Not necessarily, use it for testing only (not production) and you will be fine.
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#18Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers? Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?
Oracle is in the business of selling career insurance for executives.
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#19Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers? Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?
I think it is because they are significantly cheaper than the alternatives.
Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform
#20This is super sketch for others on the platform. First hand experience from using OCI - they have severe capacity constraints and need _lots_ of heads up when you want to increase your usage of things. Auto scaling it ain't.
So if OpenAI starts drawing significant resources from their cloud hardware, good luck gettin your own. Including me :)