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| mr_overalls Jul 22, 2021 | on: Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 | context |
I find the comments in this article very accurate:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15160149
> ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software.
> Once something gets bought by them, you know it is done. Slowly, but surely.
> They perform a function akin to the maggots that destroy cadavers in nature. Part of the overall ecosystem.
> ORA stopped being a tech co a while ago, now it is a finance play. Use cash to buy a business for its locked in customers, gut it to squeeze max money out of it until last customer is gone. Rinse, repeat.