Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day

• bl4kers@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oracle owns Cerner, the largest IT medical provider. No major competitor either, since they’re multinational and most competitors are single country or regional

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  • cityboundforest@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they also own TikTok in the US now?

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Microsoft uses Oracle, to give you a sense of scale.

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I read this as Microslop can’t operate postgres

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    • TerabyteRex@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ms does use postgres. In fact in was a dev on the postgres team at microsoft that found the russian malware in XZ that slmost got included in red hat lts and compromised the entire internet

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      • punksnotdead@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There’s no conclusive evidence it was Russian. It could just as likely be American, Chinese, Israeli, French, etc

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

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      • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I would be even more shocked to learn that person still works there. Crazy world time to check LinkedIn

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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      M$ actually bought Citus Data, so they are embracing Pgsql.

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  • Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.

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• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are a lot of big companies using Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning and other EPM stuff.

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  • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I can’t help but think of the Borderlands corpos, now.

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• W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The Ellisons don’t care, they’re in the media business now. They now control a sizeable portion of the news media, and as well as entertainment. It will bring in even more money, and also make them among the most influential people on the planet.

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