October 10, 2007

Who needs an education anyway?


So by now you've probably read all about how SAP's shitty software basically shut down the entire Los Angeles school district. If not, see here. Apparently the administrators aren't yet sure whether the problem started with the MySQL database or the SAP installation. Anyway, now there's anarchy on the streets. Seriously. Kids are out of the classrooms and in the skate parks. They're listening to live punk bands instead of those dreary teachers. And thousands of these kids are talking to our Oracle recruiters. That's right people. As I write this, our dedicated employees are hitting the streets to find the little turd-droppers. We're calling it the A.S.S. (Application Support Services) initiative. Goes like this. We go out and find young tech-savvy individuals who want to make a difference. If they know about Linux, we give them our A.S.S. kit. It's a box full of things like condoms, Playboy magazines, O'Reilly programming books, a couple of marijuana joints to help them concentrate on the O'Reilly programming books, and a bunch of other information about open source projects. Because here's the thing. Those kids don't want to go to school their entire lives. They want to change the world and help people and do something meaningful. And what better way to change the world than to work on an open source project like Tomcat? Or maybe Fedora. Anything we can use and/or support.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dear Larry,

I certainly appreciate your interest in my comments on ZDNet, about SAP's implementation at the LA school district. However, in the interest of fairness (you are fair, aren't you?) you may want to note Oracle's little payroll problem over at Arizona State University. Here is the ZDNet link:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=412


Michael Krigsman
http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures