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Re:Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, k... by hdjjhhvvhga on Saturday January 04, 2025 @10:18AM (#42595189)
> “Of all of the commercial databases, Oracle is the least secure,” British security expert David Litchfield recently told Reuters. Which is a problem, both from a national security perspective or even a consumer confidence perspective. Because today, everybody uses Oracle databases.

The only good thing about it today is that the last sentence is no longer true and Oracle is considered a legacy technology.

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Re:Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, k... by bdangubic on Saturday January 04, 2025 @10:49AM (#42595414)
the only good thing about it today is that the last sentence is no longer true and oracle is considered a legacy technology.

you and many may believe that this is the case but this can’t be further from the truth where it matters - large-scale enterprises

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Re:Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, k... by hdjjhhvvhga on Sunday January 05, 2025 @09:58AM (#42602153)
From my limited perspective (ca. 10 Fortune 500 orgs) Oracle definitely is (or was) somewhere at each of these but in most cases was considered a liability rather than asset and in two cases I participated in projects migrating away from it (that were quite time-consuming because of all quirks on the way). Only in one case the org was adamant they want to keep it (I don't know the actual reasons as I was in another department but from what I understood they used a lot of Oracle-specific solutions and were depending on Orcale support a lot).
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Re:Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, k... by nunez on Saturday January 04, 2025 @12:25PM (#42596128)
almost everyone big still uses oracle databases somewhere
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