Seriously? Oracle. *Again*.

Oh, joy. Larry Ellison, that monument to ego and overpriced databases, has decided one head wasn’t enough for the hydra that is Oracle. So now we have two Presidents being shoved into Co-CEO roles: Safra Catz and Michael Orlando. Yeah, because what Oracle *really* needed was more executive bloat.

Apparently, this isn’t a power struggle or anything sinister (yeah right). It’s all about “growth” and “cloud infrastructure”. Translation: they need to keep the stock price up while simultaneously trying not to completely screw over their existing customer base with yet another licensing scheme change. Orlando is supposed to be the tech guy, Catz handles the money-grubbing side of things – a perfect pairing for maximum corporate efficiency… or, more likely, maximum shareholder extraction.

They’re spinning it as “business as usual” but let’s be real: this reeks of uncertainty. Two CEOs? That just means twice the bureaucracy and half the accountability. Expect conflicting strategies, endless meetings, and a whole lot of internal politics. And you know who pays for that? *You do*.

Honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t just clone Ellison. Would have been less messy.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of clusterfucks, I once had to debug a Solaris server that was running Oracle 8i. Eighti! The logs were just a wall of errors, the database admin had tried “fixing” things by randomly changing parameters, and the whole thing smelled like desperation and stale coffee. Spent three days wrestling with it only to find out someone had accidentally deleted half the system tablespace. Half. Yeah, that’s Oracle for you. Don’t even get me started on their support…

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