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Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is this hyperbole? I really doubt someone can be a SWE for even 2 years and not know what oracle does...

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 49 minutes 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.