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auvi
I am surprised to see at 8:04 that "Not very responsive service". Oracle charges a lot of money and their support should be better.
mhd
I still think Oracles is two engineers thinking about b-trees and then several million sales people.
_asummers
You're completely mischaracterizing Oracle! You forgot about the lawyers.
nikanj
That's the pre-layoffs Oracle, they've cut the engineering staff since those days
[dead] throwaway_exer
Oracle is very responsive with suggestions for trivial tickets, like how to use an existing feature.

They are nigh worthless for adding features or fixing bugs that you're the first to file on.

So their support is good for average workloads, but non-existent for extreme cases - like Internet-scale systems.

nik736
"Even with the maximum discount that Oracle can give (70%), we saved million of $$$'s" :D
rajeemcariazo
I use yandex because they offer free custom domain email hosting.
davisonio
Same here, would definitely recommend it. It's interesting to see this video - especially how Yandex Mail comes together.
vbezhenar
Also don't forget about free DNS hosting with API: domain.yandex.com. Might be useful, I made dyndns-like setup using this API once.
bluefin
I do the same but with zoho. Any advantages in using yandex?
ash
I had switched from Zoho to Yandex about a year ago. For two reasons: 1. Yandex has infinitely more usable web client. 2. Email forwarding that actually works. Every couple of months Zoho decided to stop forwarding for some weird reason. I had to re-enable it through its unusable web interface, every time.
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