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Oracle isn't even fun when automating.
But seeing a modern ecommerce platform fully integrated with Oracle payments, invoices, inventory, and shipping is pretty satisfying when it's done.
Always remember, Oracle doesn't have customers, only hostages!
This makes me think of war time vs peace time. During a war, the govt will put engineers and architects into an R&D incubator with all the resources they need. To the engineers, the fact that there is a war is irrelevant, they aren't paying attention to that, they're just focussing on innovation because it's their job. Couldn't this scenario be simulated, even without war? I think of bell labs. It strange that innova…
You'd think that the workload dropped, but it increased greatly. But this kind of change needed hospital leaders and politicians on board putting it as a high priority. Change is difficult, and most of the time people don't care enough to.
The book Peak Performance summarized that growth = rest + stress. Without the stress of a war, the system doesn't put innovation at a high enough priority, and you get an effect like the US faces, where universities and R&D departments are just a bottomless sink.