Oracle

“One thing they did do right in the infrastructure though, because by the way, very quickly they became Oracle's largest ever instance by traffic. The Oracle people were like, oh my god, we can't help you. No one else is seeing this many reads or writes per sec…”

“It was a bake-off between two, and Shell basically was like, okay, cool, what database software am I going to procure? And the choices were Sybase and Oracle, and Sybase did not return Shell's call, and so he chose Oracle.”

“Amazon.com did not finish their migration off of Oracle databases. And onto AWS products. Until 2019.”

“By the way, earlier when I said 24 different companies merged together to create Cerner, I forgot that this chart that I'm looking at predates when Cerner then bought Siemens. So then there's another 12 companies that had merged together to become Siemens that…”

“December, 2021, as we've been alluding to, Cerner gets bought by Oracle for twenty eight billion dollars.”

“You know, maybe it's too early to tell, but I think this is probably one of Oracle's worst acquisitions of all time.”

“Oracle's CMO said, I believe on an earnings call, that Drive to Survive was the reason that they decided to get into F-One and do the big Red Bull sponsorship.”