I really _really_ hope that HP continues making Itanium based servers available for 30 more years, even if they are not selling a single unit, just to spite Oracle, for the comedic value only.
In all seriousness, HP can do that to get some out of court settlement money from Oracle, as Oracle clearly does not want to continue supporting the platform.
Can't HPE stock a bunch of Itanium systems in some warehouse, just to be able to claim they are still selling them? Doesn't matter that Intel isn't producing chips anymore?
You can check my comment to cement this. The pay is excellent but the organization fits people’s general ideas of oracle. I saw contracts signed where we’d purposely lose money for years in order to box out competitors in the short term and then jack up prices for the client in the long term.
What people don’t typically think about though is how massively successful oracle is because of these strategies. They work really well.
Isn’t that a pretty widely used strategy? Eg. Uber pretty much lost on initial rides (maybe even now), so it’s hardly big evil Oracle, but big evil capitalism.
Except that Uber's product is a commodity. It's far, far easier to switch to using a different ride sharing app than it is to switch to using a different database. Especially for a large organization.
Like who? I imagine anyone who goes to work at Oracle doesn't really posses the disdain for them that allows for the derivation of pleasure from hearing they lost a court case.
I’ve experienced the same as you, I’ve lost many hours to fixing different protocol time out errors. We’re running it in ECS now and it’s pretty stable, every now and then one pops up but is fixed by retrying the job.
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