Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.

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    3 days ago

    I’ve been a software engineer for over 20 years now and tbh I couldn’t tell you even if my life depended on it. I know it’s a shit tier hosting service that people use because they offer 5$ worth virtual server for free with a valid credit card but that’s about it.

    It’s one of those ancient paper shuffling IT companies that is 95% sale/middle mamager leeches, 5% wizard engineers carrying everything on their shoulders.

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        3 days ago

        At least IBM used to be cool and gave us things like SQL, DRAM and Thinkpads. Other than Java kits I couldn’t name a single useful initiative from Oracle. They just take existing inventions and shuffle enterprise papers.

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      2 days ago

      Is this hyperbole? I really doubt someone can be a SWE for even 2 years and not know what oracle does…