Oracle have routinely had multimillion pound contract failures and people keep buying from them. Big vendors are too big to fail.
replyThose are custom software or heavily customized implementations of ERP and similar systems for very large organizations. I’m talking more about the SMB market where today it’s possible for a small team to carve out a niche and make a nice living or even bootstrap a venture that competes with a large player that has poor UX or antiquated feature designs.
replyThe reason Oracle can continue failing at those massive projects is simple: everyone fails at them routinely and often it’s the customers fault.
I used to gripe about various ERP companies but after having dealt with enough, yeah, that's just what the world of ERP systems is like. You will spend your time even with the best of them desiring to scream endlessly at everyone who works there. And they also know your pain but are powerless to help.
replySame with Deloitte
replyno one's getting fired for hiring either one.
reply> It will completely kill the market.
replyit will kill all the people in that hospital too
What is this, Humanitarian News?
replyThe real Hackers were the ones actually trying to minimize suffering all along. Not reproduce it at scale.
replyBut the Torment Nexus is such an interesting technical challenge! and I don’t personally torment people: I just move protobufs around! - Software Engineer #1 and #2 excuses
replythankyou
replyI mean, the stories about how stuff was getting built in the late 90s/early 2000s aren’t much worse.
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replyOr you end up with a certification process, which will of course introduce it's own problems but startups doing things the right way and not just "moveing fast and breaking things" can thrive.
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