> a rudderless leech for nearly 30 years now.

Yeah, from small interactions over the past two decades, I have no idea how they could have been so bad while employing so many people. What on earth were those 30k people doing?! Their solutions were crap for ages.

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colechristensen 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>I have no idea how they could have been so bad while employing so many people

There is a significant correlation between how many people you employ and how much nothing you accomplish. It means you've gotten big enough to survive long bouts of doing something and achieving nothing with large amounts of people.

	▲	VirusNewbie 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Amazon empoloys 300k corporate employees. Apple has 170k. How is this a significant correlation. It seems there's literally no correlation between people and what is accomplished.

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Tuna-Fish 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Oracle codebase is legendarily gnarly. Doing even small things takes forever and a mountain of work.

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rbanffy 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> What on earth were those 30k people doing?!

Could be lawyers.

Would we be sad if they were lawyers?

	▲	dajt 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		We would not be sad if they were lawyers. But I'm sure they were not lawyers. Lawyers are how Oracle generates revenue. Developers & QA are cost centres and liabilties.