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The New Oracle

160 points| xPaw | 13 years ago |oracle.com

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[+] WatchDog|13 years ago|reply
For those who read this once they fix it. The homepage of oracle.com is simply <html> <body> <center> <p> <h2> Hello World </h2> </p> </center> </body> </html>
[+] waterside81|13 years ago|reply
A big thanks. I was struggling, early in the morning here on the east coast, to understand what was going on.
[+] dansul|13 years ago|reply
It's not fixed here (EU).
[+] meaty|13 years ago|reply
I reckon their license agreement with themselves expired...
[+] staunch|13 years ago|reply
Even Oracle can't afford Oracle.
[+] beedogs|13 years ago|reply
Nice. The support options are basically the same, and it loads so much faster now!
[+] joelthelion|13 years ago|reply
I like it much better than the old one. I hope it stays that way :)
[+] factorialboy|13 years ago|reply
Maybe they'll divert some investment away from their legal department towards engineering.

No offence intended to Oracle engineers on HN!

[+] seanmcdirmid|13 years ago|reply
Really, are there any Oracle engineers on HN, even just lurking about?
[+] AndrewNCarr|13 years ago|reply
Countdown to 5 more HN posts with open source reimplementations of Oracle's new UI style. With proper CSS of course, none of those center tags.

By tomorrow every blog story linked will be using this ultra minimalist design.

[+] rickmb|13 years ago|reply
Coming from Oracle, "Hello world" feels oddly menacing. Like they're planning another takeover.
[+] Gigablah|13 years ago|reply
I hope all this minimalism is just a passing fad.
[+] wickedbass|13 years ago|reply
Am I the only one that thinks their website is crap? Just from looking at the source I can tell they have crap frontend designers/developers... Look at the way they name their classes, and wtf is with all the inline js?

For a company like that, I would wonder why all of it isn't minimized/spaceless as well?

Oracle smoracle, soon rendered irrelevant thanks to emerging technologies.

[+] Keyframe|13 years ago|reply
I can offer some insight into this. Years and years ago, when I had a brief stint in web (I was hungry!), one of the tasks my company (I was a one man company, and still am) was given to was producing content for several local oracle web portals. From what I hear, the workflow is still the same. Basically, content was streamed from Oracle HQ in source images and PDF and text briefs and you made a static html/css pages out of it. Then, you logged into their web thing (weblogic, or what is it called) which resided within app server and had a built cms of sorts into which you uploaded all your source files and referenced them from within that vfs. It was such a mess to do it right. But in a certain way it was neat for branching localizations.

It basically boiled down to having web sites within global websites (hence a lot of duplicate inclusions, yo dawg moments, etc.). Even the master one worked like that (after all it's a localization specific to english). Eventually I set up a smallish lamp server (prior to oracle mysql acquisition) to produce quick one offs (gathering interest for event invitations, polls etc...) since it was impossible to do it right with their system. Also, fun times were had with no preview functionality with their system, so all had to be live and hidden in order to test, but some things eventually broke when they went live, because referencing directories and files were within their vfs, and it lagged quite a bit and was mysterious with cache flush (random).

[+] efa|13 years ago|reply
>>soon rendered irrelevant thanks to emerging technologies

wanna bet?

[+] nathancahill|13 years ago|reply
They are following the minimalistic and flat design trend.
[+] wrath|13 years ago|reply
I'm always annoyed at myself and others at work when our site goes down for a period of time and we didn't get some kind of notification telling me so... considering that this has apparently been happening for at least an hour, I'm feeling a whole lot better now.
[+] lucian1900|13 years ago|reply
Pingdom tends to work pretty well.
[+] pipboy|13 years ago|reply
strange, it doesn't have copyright sign.
[+] aw3c2|13 years ago|reply
Not needed, copyright is implicit, the sign is just decoration.
[+] 3825|13 years ago|reply
the copyright date is when the page gets rendered or that's what i'd assume legal would say
[+] mtrn|13 years ago|reply
Hello World won't save you neither.
[+] dewiz|13 years ago|reply
cheap, I was expecting an exclamation mark there
[+] anvandare|13 years ago|reply
I always use the 'canonical' K&R version: "hello, world". No capitalization, no full stop or exclamation mark, comma used before direct address. </quirk> ;)
[+] csmattryder|13 years ago|reply
The exclamation mark would've been there, but it's now closed source, you'll have to buy the new Oracle EM if you want that.
[+] jordangsu|13 years ago|reply
Using the deprecated "center" html tag? tsk tsk Other than that brilliant design.