
Amazon fulfilment teams celebrates Oracle database switch off
So happy to get shot of it
Amazon employees working in fulfilment teams which handle inventory and shipping at the online retail giant have opened the champers after getting Oracle off their company servers.

Oracle blames Google for shutting it out of the smartphone industry
Oh those pesky applets
Oracle has made the bizarre claim that the only reason it is not the king of the smartphones is that Google used applets in its software.

Berkshire flogs off Apple and Oracle shares
Buys a nice red hat instead
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has trimmed its stake in iPhone maker Apple in a sign that the shine has come off the fruity cargo cult.

Oracle systematically underpaid women claims lawsuit
Saving money
Everyone's favourite database company, Oracle, is alleged to have systematically underpaid its women employees and continued to do so after the government told it to be more reasonable, a court has been told.

Larry Ellison to oversee his mate Musk
Yeah that will shut him up
Under pressure to do something to regulate Tesla CEO Elon Musk's mouth, its board to provide "independent oversight" demanded by the US by appointing his mate Oracle's Larry Ellison to the board.

Ellison moans that no ordinary person would use Amazon
Ordinary people buy an Oracle licence
Oracle’s Larry Ellison is still rather miffed that Amazon has turned off its Oracle data warehouse in favour of its own software.

Amazon’s Oracle purge will be finished by next year
Oracle and Microsoft abusive to customers
Amazon will have shifted most of its Oracle databases onto something of its own making by the end of next year at the latest.

Oracle’s patching process sparks zero-day release
Oh those Russians
A Russian security researcher who was so miffed at the glacial pace of Oracle’s patching released details of a zero-day vulnerability without warning them.

Amazon mocks Oracle’s click bait story
We must admit they have a point
Yesterday a story appeared on the wires based around a leaked insider report claiming that Amazon’s Prime Day was ruined by the outfits transfer from Oracle to Amazon’s software.

Amazon's Oracle purge caused Prime Day outage
Banishing an Oracle is tricky
Amazon’s move away from Oracle software might have cost it a few delivery problems on its biggest day – Prime day.