This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle

[erikuden@mastodon.de]

This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle

[erikuden@mastodon.de]

After realizing that my servers were offline since the 25th of January 2025, I've been in contact with Oracle support in a multitude of ways trying to figure out why this happened and how we can recover both the account and data.

I wasn't told that my account was disabled. I didn't receive an E-Mail or anything. When logging in, I was simply told that my username or password was incorrect. After (successfully) resetting my password twice, I realized it wasn't about the password. Oracle had just deleted my account without any notice.

Both through calls and text, always with the same service request (SR) number, I contacted support. Initially, support told me that my account was flagged “Inactive” and hence disabled. They also verified that they saw me login almost daily and that I never missed a payment or anything. Even if an account was inactive, that's never a reason to disable it, especially without any warning E-Mail or an E-Mail letting me know that my account was disabled in the first place.

This chat was the result of all of that, where the highest team I've yet been elevated to told me that there's nothing they can do about it, there's no reason they can tell me for why this happened, and there's no one else I could ask.

[erikuden@mastodon.de]

I also love how I ask “Is there anything I can do to avoid this happening in the future?” and they respond with “Oh, don't worry. You don't have a future at Oracle. This will not happen to you again, as we don't allow for you to make another account.”

[erikuden@mastodon.de]

The tech person at Oracle at least lets me know that they'd feel similarly betrayed and dislike this handling of user data too 🥲

[erikuden@mastodon.de]

Don't worry: I have backups of all of this. It's just kafkaesque what is happening here.

[erikuden@mastodon.de]

Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.

https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113879369270806353

What a weird coincidence.

[funbaker@chaos.social]

@ErikUden

Hey Oracle, I will never use your shitty products, your CEO sucks, and I will DO everything in my power that your products are not used anywhere else.

[funbaker@chaos.social]

@ErikUden

PS: Postgres is 100x times better than your databases, and it will never sell to you. Get fucked Oracle.