cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/technology/p/732769/oracle-layoffs-tech-giant-to-slash-30000-jobs-as-banks-pull-out-from-financing-ai-data-centr
Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report.
Yeah, quite a bit of really good optimizations and stability were done by Sun, now Oracle. The GraalVM stuff is especially interesting…
I’m no fan of Ellison or Oracle; I wish Sun was not acquired by Oracle. Ellison being Ellison, they really really tried to monetize Java the language/platform for some reason.