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Gigablah
I hope all this minimalism is just a passing fad.
meaty
I reckon their license agreement with themselves expired...
staunch
Even Oracle can't afford Oracle.
mtrn
Hello World won't save you neither.
cvrajeesh
WOW!!! what a creativity.

DOCTYPE is also missing :)

joelthelion
I like it much better than the old one. I hope it stays that way :)
dewiz
cheap, I was expecting an exclamation mark there
anvandare
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
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.
nathancahill
They are following the minimalistic and flat design trend.
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pipboy
strange, it doesn't have copyright sign.
3825
the copyright date is when the page gets rendered or that's what i'd assume legal would say
aw3c2
Not needed, copyright is implicit, the sign is just decoration.
wrath
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
Pingdom tends to work pretty well.
MichaelApproved
+1 on Pingdom but don't forget to test actual content and not just a "200 OK" server response. It's common to test if a site is UP but not if the content it's serving is correct. Make sure to content match because Oracle.com is returning a "200 OK" status even though this probably isn't what Oracle considers "OK".
factorialboy
Maybe they'll divert some investment away from their legal department towards engineering.

No offence intended to Oracle engineers on HN!

seanmcdirmid
Really, are there any Oracle engineers on HN, even just lurking about?
3825
maybe the sun folks
shmat
Yes.
seanmcdirmid
Cool. It didn't really fit my (naive) stereotype of a hackernews reader, but then there are a lot of Oracle employees out there (including people like Guy Steele Jr).
jordangsu
Using the deprecated "center" html tag? tsk tsk Other than that brilliant design.
forlorn
keep going that minimalistic way, lol
WatchDog
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
A big thanks. I was struggling, early in the morning here on the east coast, to understand what was going on.
dansul
It's not fixed here (EU).
AndrewNCarr
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.

jmpeax
Interesting Java marketing?
kahawe
OK, looks like the normal website is back now...