It does look like it.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-drops-out-of-bidding-...

That's so...odd. When I think Oracle, I think old suits selling boring old tech. Not 12 year olds twerking and/or pretending to be killed at Auschwitz(yes, a real trend).

The reason for the purchase appears simple: They believe there is money to be made.

Of course that would rely on good execution.

yeah.. lots of head scratching when I saw that announcement.

Larry Ellison supports Trump and has raised funds in the past for him. Oracle also has hired lobbyists who were classmates of Pompeo or are related to advisors to Trump.

That may reduce the head scratching about how Oracle got its hand on TikTok. As to the other hand scratching of why, well, my guess is that it's selling for cheap enough that it doesn't matter and orcale wants to have a consumer product similar to the league of FAANG.

That's... disappointing. While Amazon may be the reigning modern incarnation of evil, Oracle has held that title for longer.

Is Oracle evil? I thought they were just shrewd business people and not stewards of OSS. I know they have a terrible history in open source but what are some of the evil act’s they’ve done?

Just genuinely curious. I’m a dev that’s only been around the last decade or so. Wasn’t around when they gained prominence.

Oracle is highly litigious. They also acquired and killed a number of products that had a cult following. Their consulting wing sucks, but honestly not much more than Accenture or the like.

So stupid, really.