[DevKoala]

Do people questioning the intentions of this move, have actual experience using Oracle cloud?

It seems that people really eat the marketing that AWS/GCP/Azure are the best cloud provider for every single product.

Oracle Cloud's perception is in the gutter, and it's all press. It's very possible that they have a competitive cloud service. They were making some decent offers for talent last time I checked.

[corpMaverick]

Oracle has a long history of being an all around shitty company. So is probably that. Even if they have may have a good cloud offering.

[jedberg]

From what I've heard, the top talent they are hiring are not being allowed to actually do anything useful. They are getting paid to be in the PR.

Maybe someone who actually works on Oracle cloud can jump in here and clarify.

[alpha_squared]

> Maybe someone who actually works on Oracle cloud can jump in here and clarify.

I'd love to, and I'm sure others would as well, but I'm not sure what can be said that wouldn't run afoul of legal.

[jedberg]

The fact that you're afraid of what legal might think of your response says volumes in and of itself.

[enitihas]

Which company employees aren't afraid of what legal might think?

[jlgaddis]

Pretty much any HN comment thread even tangentially related to "cloud" usually has comments from employees at AWS, Azure, and/or GCP -- you know, Oracle's three primary competitors. -- not to mention many other big tech companies (Facebook, Netflix, IBM/RedHat, and so on).

[grogenaut]

Amazon updated their guidance to employees a few years back that we could share our own opinions freely online. That was after the but article and many happy amazonians pointing out they were hamstrung from posting their experiences online. It just seems smart from a customer trust and recruiting standpoint.

Don't leak material information or customer data tho. Which can make it hard as some of the best stuff is secret or customer related. Filters abound.

It was weird moving to twitch which was default open before this switch as the two policies were in conflicts.

I think this is better overall. And I enjoy the insights from aws folks and gcp, and the sparring that goes on.

I don't know anyone who went to Oracle cloud and was happy, but apparently they can't share their opinions

[jedberg]

When I worked at Netflix I never worried about what legal might say. I worried about what PR might say, but not legal.

[president]

Anecdotal but I've worked with developers of Oracle cloud who admitted that it was complete garbage. I also know DevOps people who have taken training for Oracle cloud and AWS and they told me they didn't know why anyone would actually use Oracle cloud.