Is this hyperbole? I really doubt someone can be a SWE for even 2 years and not know what oracle does…
I’ve been a software engineer for over 20 years now and tbh I couldn’t tell you even if my life depended on it. I know it’s a shit tier hosting service that people use because they offer 5$ worth virtual server for free with a valid credit card but that’s about it.
It’s one of those ancient paper shuffling IT companies that is 95% sale/middle mamager leeches, 5% wizard engineers carrying everything on their shoulders.
Tja@programming.dev 4 days ago
drmoose@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Nope, I’m not an american and oracle is really not that well known outside of american corporate tech.
Mysql and Java were very big in Europe but as developer you don’t really interact with Oracle at all and even then everyone’s using openjdk since early 2010s so really if you’re not working in american enterprise you never even going to encounter Oracle’s name let alone interact with them.
My only interaction was calling their support trying to explain what a debit card is because Oracle is so brokenly american that they don’t understand the difference between debit and credit.
Tja@programming.dev 3 days ago
I work with banks, insurance companies, telecoms, manufacturers and ocassionally retailers in Europe, they all use Oracle for well over half of their applications.
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Both IBM and Oracle I haven’t really worked with because they’re heavily used by massive companies. We had an Oracle database when I was in banking that was because we were self hosting a loan accounting system. IBM does backend data processing stuff for massive companies like American Express and Bank of America. All of the smaller shops I’ve worked in have built things on Microsoft’s stack.