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Comment by tencentshill

4 hours ago

Well that's a big one.

Perhaps firing expertise and hiring incompetents wasn't a good idea.

Doesn’t seem new. Do you remember the 2015 OPM hack? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Office_of_Personnel_Manag.... My data got leaked in that.

  • Was that the one where due to political grand-standing, we had a government shutdown that led to furloughing the contractors who worked on security, so no one was watching the dashboard? Or was that a different one?

There's incompetence in every major company including Oracle. PeopleSoft isn't known for being the most modern or secure thing out there. Less reliance on 3rd party software like this will be a good thing going forward.

  • That's assuming that the result of this will be to switch away from PeopleSoft.

    • I think enterprise software in this vein used to have a quasi-monopoly due to the sheer work required to build software of its size (not enough engineers exist in the government to do so), and the difficulty for competitors to enter regulated markets and so pretty much 1-2 options to choose from.

      AI now makes it possible to build this kind of software in-house, offering a 2nd choice, though it'll only be as good as the standards of the teams using it. Only time can tell.

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> Perhaps firing expertise

The expertise that told them to buy PeopleSoft years ago, or do you actually believe the FBI home-rolled its own HRMS in the last year?

Are they related to the expertise that was supposed to lead to the immediate, irreparable offlining of Twitter after they were all fired?

Do you think this is a consequence of the seemingly quarterly RIFs at Oracle? Is it that offshoring wasn’t such a good idea?

  • The irony, of course, is that this will likely have a negative impact upon Oracle's reputation, which will have a negative impact upon its value, which will then be resolved with more RIFs.

    It's okay. Larry got another island.

    • At this point if Oracle's reputation has any more negative impact it is liable to roll over and suddenly have an amazing reputation.

    • > have a negative impact upon Oracle's reputation

      Do they have any positive reputation left, or is it just more negative from the previous negative position?

    • I doubt it, look at all other breaches over the years.

      If anything Oracle will "contribute" a lot to congress people's midterm reelection and in a few months all will be forgotten and Oracle will get more Gov. contracts.