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Oracle's website tumbled from the interwebs in the last hour but the cause of the outage remains unclear. The tech giant was yet to respond to The Register's request for comment at time of writing. A static message on the Redwood City, California-based company's site reads: This site is experiencing technical difficulty. We …

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  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Holmes

    Larry Hellison and the Mystery of the Blackout Saturdays.

    Very unbreakable, I see.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Update FAIL (?)

      It can't be related to Black Friday. No one buys Oracle these days.

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  2. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Oracle's Black Saturday discounts?

    maybe a measly 0.005% hence the rush to place all those upgrade orders before the end of the year saving just what exactly?

    Or the synic in me says that this is all a ploy to get them some attention when just about everyone else couldn't give a [redacted] about their crapware especially their business software.

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  3. Bernard

    Holiday shoppers rushing to buy Exalogic boxes?

    'tis the season...

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    It's working fine for me.

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    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Larry, please.

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  5. btrower

    Quibbling, but...

    Should it not be 'titsup(TM)'? I am pretty sure somebody must own that 'IP' and it might well be Oracle.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Quibbling, but...

      What an Oracle system gone Titsup(TM)!

      Never, you'd never expect to see that.

      Perhaps they shouldn't have stopped running in on SuperDomes :-)

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        Re: One thumb down

        Oh look, Oracle are responding to El'Reg, their PR department are awake.

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    Mushroom

    Is it using their in-memory DB?

    Exception 1001:

    Error: Out-of-memory

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  7. Tom 7

    We'll update this story if Oracle does get in touch.

    That will put a new twist on 'breaking news'.

    I'd do that on a test server first!

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  8. Mr Spoo's Owner

    Pigs are flying! Oracle responded to the Register...

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