Thanks, Oracle

November 11th, 2007 javier

Normally I don’t make a point of calling out other vendors by name, but this time I can’t resist. See, Oracle’s big party-turned-conference is this week. “Larry-fest” — I’ve heard it called by some cynics. I believe the tagline is something to the effect of “100,000 reasons to say thank you.” Thank you indeed, Oracle. Thanks for closing down a whole frickin street 3 WHOLE DAYS BEFORE your database love fest and creating 4 more extra days of traffic. Lucky for us, Hyperic is a few blocks away and gets to enjoy the fruits of Oracle’s closure of Howard St. between 3rd & 4th here in San Francisco. Why did they close it? Well, to say THANK YOU to all the people who pay them tons of money… none of which apparently plan on driving in SOMA for a few days!

Friday night, while I was sitting in all-out gridlock in SOMA trying to leave work I couldnt help but thing what a stupid use of money that is, and how obnoxious it is for a company (and a city) to agree to such a lavish and incredibly inconvenient thing. What a waste of money.

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