“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”

Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by bigiain on Sunday September 03, 2017 @08:42PM (#15164829)

Great salespeople. Like _really_ good. (Often borderline or unequivocally evil... As other comments in this thread show.)

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Re:“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic sile... by stesch on Monday September 04, 2017 @04:00AM (#15166509)

I was once in a meeting on site. The task was to get some data from an AS/400 to a Linux server and display it on a website.

Text files would have been enough to cache the data. But you never know how a project can change over time so I proposed PostgreSQL or IBM DB/2. The latter in case they absolutely wanted to pay for a database and they are already using an IBM AS/400. (We were using PostgreSQL and Informix.)

At the meeting they said they have already bought a license for an Oracle DB. Without consulting us. So we were forced to use it without prior experience.

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