There has never been a moment that I've truly understood how Oracle stays in business.
I snuck into "Oracle Openworld" in 2011, and it was just the most drunken, debaucherous event. I had just come from Djangocon in Portland, and the contrast was incredible - Djangocon which was _much_ more chill, focused on collaboration - more full of weed, whereas the Oracle thing was liquor and cocaine, and I had the distinct feeling that few people there were mulling over any product notions whatsoever.
Is it just legacy db support? Can that really explain this? They have window shopped acquisitions for a decade now - do they have a stack which new customers are approaching with serious esteem, and I just haven't heard about it?
I snuck into "Oracle Openworld" in 2011, and it was just the most drunken, debaucherous event. I had just come from Djangocon in Portland, and the contrast was incredible - Djangocon which was _much_ more chill, focused on collaboration - more full of weed, whereas the Oracle thing was liquor and cocaine, and I had the distinct feeling that few people there were mulling over any product notions whatsoever.
Is it just legacy db support? Can that really explain this? They have window shopped acquisitions for a decade now - do they have a stack which new customers are approaching with serious esteem, and I just haven't heard about it?