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by colesantiago·6y ago·view on hn ↗
The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

Oracle's latest acquisition [0] by is a consumer video creation company called sauce.video [1]

It could be that Oracle is looking for a new challenge in video technology to demonstrate the capabilities of their cloud services, even Zoom chosen them for their infrastructure [2].

[0] https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/

[1] https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/sauce-video/

[2] https://www.oracle.com/customers/zoom.html

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> The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

Seriously? There were plenty of legitimate reasons to hate Microsoft "back in the day". Less of them now, but hating Microsoft in the 90s and 00s was not "without reason".

yeah, there's a huge difference between "emotional" and "emotional without reason." operating in bad faith will indeed make people emotional, but for a very good reason.
> > The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

> Seriously? There were plenty of legitimate reasons to hate Microsoft "back in the day".

That validates the second half of the comparison as much as it contradicts the first.

> Less of them now, but hating Microsoft in the 90s and 00s was not "without reason".

Never said that, read what I said again.

> The hate around Oracle seems very emotional without reason and reminds me of the hate around Microsoft back in the day.

(emphasis mine) Okay, what am I missing? That looks like exactly the same statement.

There are a lot of different reasons I hate Oracle, but the biggest one is their lawsuit with Google over Android.
Maybe so. It seems like that will be the case given that TikTok will be on Oracle's infrastructure as part of the deal. So there's one thing at least.

> Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research, told TechCrunch Oracle’s scoop of TikTok “will add plenty of load to their infrastructure service.”

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/13/oracle-wins-bid-to-buy-tik...

I worked at Oracle for 5 years. The hate is fully justified.
Honest question: why did you stay so long?
Honestly? They barely asked me to do any work in later years. A lot of people were just checked out at the office, even management. I mostly collected a paycheck and worked on researching my own projects, so that when I quit, I hit the ground running with a startup.

It helps to know the context. I got wiped out in the dot-com boom of 2000. I needed a safe haven, Oracle was shelter from the storm. I got married, bought a house, had kids, and so for a while I was coasting.

Or Zoom is going through them so the US government can spy more conveniently.

"You are not allowed to spy on our citizens like that."

"Well, someone has to spy on them."

"You're right, we'll do it."

"OK, just don't interfere with OUR spying/propaganda programs and you can have all the US data for your own purposes."

"Deal."

This comment reminds me of the scene from Interstellar where the school teacher is telling us that Neil Armstrong never went to the moon.