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		apavlo on Oct 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitt... > But Musk got started by confounding x.com/PayPal, which does have very similar engineering needs as Twitter. But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them.

beachy on Oct 30, 2022 [–]

> But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them.

Oracle on IBM big iron is a pragmatic (but expensive) way to achieve a highly vertically scalable database platform. Not trendy at all but also not a bad technology position to be in, even now.

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