You know that thing about "You can't look up a recipe online without having to scroll to the bottom to get past the writer's life story?"

The software equivalent of that is looking up anything about commercial software systems. You Google them and then you have to scroll down past all the vendor's advertisements and their main page where they tell you "MoonClover is a rethinking of the nature of the nature of knowledge, the next step in evolution of the human comprehension of reality. The top choice of forward-thinking tech firms, it's pushing through ignorance to shine new light on the nature of existance and..."

Fuck that. You scroll down to the Wikipedia article so you can read "MoonClover is a key-value store with performance equivalent to MongoDB that was created by Bob Bobson and Steve Stevens to get their company, BoboStevo Inc., off paying the Oracle DB tax every quarter."

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