Oracle's developer competition (or: stupid marketing tricks)

I want to thank Oracle for the freeze-dried ice cream, but regretfully decline to enter their developer program contest.

It seems Oracle wants to shrink its developer program. To this end, they're going  to choose from the most valuable participants in their developer program and blast them into space.  I'm not kidding. They get a seat on the first commercial earth-to-space trip.

I think this one falls into the "stupid marketing tricks" camp. But it is funny. Thanks for a good laugh, guys. 

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