It’s unclear exactly how many employees lost their jobs, with reports ranging from 10,000 to 30,000. The latter would represent almost 19% of the company’s 162,000 workers.
Microsoft won’t, but Oracle… I’m having trouble figuring out what Oracle sells nowadays that is worth paying money for. Are there really that many companies still hooked on Oracle’s DB?
Oracle owns Cerner, the largest IT medical provider. No major competitor either, since they’re multinational and most competitors are single country or regional
Ms does use postgres. In fact in was a dev on the postgres team at microsoft that found the russian malware in XZ that almost got included in red hat lts and compromised the entire internet
Microsoft won’t, but Oracle… I’m having trouble figuring out what Oracle sells nowadays that is worth paying money for. Are there really that many companies still hooked on Oracle’s DB?
Oracle owns Cerner, the largest IT medical provider. No major competitor either, since they’re multinational and most competitors are single country or regional
Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they also own TikTok in the US now?
Microsoft uses Oracle, to give you a sense of scale.
Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.
I read this as Microslop can’t operate postgres
M$ actually bought Citus Data, so they are embracing Pgsql.
Ms does use postgres. In fact in was a dev on the postgres team at microsoft that found the russian malware in XZ that almost got included in red hat lts and compromised the entire internet
I would be even more shocked to learn that person still works there. Crazy world time to check LinkedIn
There’s no conclusive evidence it was Russian. It could just as likely be American, Chinese, Israeli, French, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
There are a lot of big companies using Hyperion Financial Management, Hyperion Planning and other EPM stuff.
I can’t help but think of the Borderlands corpos, now.