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Re: Ask HN: Why does no one talk about working or interviewi... by coryl on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @04:17PM (#1938569)
"Boring" is as defined by the individual. After all, some people are thrilled by studying things considered boring by most people.

But I would assume that for most in this case, boring means sameness. Most of us hear about new Google products and technology every day. What was the last Oracle innovation you heard about? Thus, we know far more about Google products and culture because they're interesting; they get written, published, and discussed.

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Re: Ask HN: Why does no one talk about working or interviewi... by sdizdar on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @04:50PM (#1938643)
These are good points. "What was the last Oracle innovation you heard about?" - that is very good question. It is hard to believe that company with $26B (4x more than Google) in sales has no innovation.

Could it be that since oracle inventions are mainly in enterprise space and these technologies are not generally available to consumers, so they are never publicized not discussed in venues blogs and forums like this? You can only can see ad in WSJ and that is the end of the story.

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