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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by Apocryphon on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:14PM (#22430070)
What alternatives did you use- Microsoft Office for those?

Now I'm imaging if Oracle had invested in creating as many competitors for Google products as possible, Samsung-style, even in markets that don't make sense.

Back in 2007, Sun had been working on an iPhone/iOS competitor named the jPhone. Imagine if Oracle had ended up continuing their work. Then there'd be two competing smartphone OS's powered by Java.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/0ADA49EA-93A...

https://www.informationweek.com/call-it-the-jphone-sun-shows...

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by soared on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:10AM (#22433356)
That is literally what they do. We used OraDocs which is a comically awful version of G sheets/docs or office 360.

Oracle has “beehive” a god awful outlook extension that ruins most functionality by taking core features from outlook and forcing them through oracle servers.

Rather than sales force for a CRM they have a god awful oracle sales cloud from decades ago with 10% of the functionality.

They moved all acquisitions software from AWS to oracles cloud... but oracles cloud couldn’t handle the load and a few had to be temporarily returned to aws.

The list goes on.

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by Apocryphon on Friday February 28, 2020 @08:42PM (#22448102)
Sounds like Hooli in HBO's Silicon Valley unintentionally skewered them.
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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by dtech on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:25AM (#22431389)
> Then there'd be two competing smartphone OS's powered by Java.

Probably not, there were iOS/Android competitors until not too long ago but they all died: Windows Phone, webOS, Symbian.

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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by Apocryphon on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:28AM (#22431405)
It's funny imagining Oracle trying to undercut Google by competing with a half-baked iOS clone made (or rather, bought) by Sun, though. Perhaps they would've kept the fight just so they can hurt G, as they are currently doing now via litigation.
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