I usually ignore trolls, and you're bordering on it, but since you said you like me, I'll answer anyway. Two things:

1) That one issue -- which is correct, I didn't follow up with Oracle or any big mainframe server companies after I had that off-the-record conversation with the Blizzard IT guy -- doesn't mean that we never do our own followup/research work here on the blog. We do followup and independent research all the time (look for "told us" or "we heard from" in our posts), and some of it you don't ever hear about because we do a followup and then decide there's no story there. Just because of one issue, don't say we never do our own research.

2) And this isn't an excuse, but an observation: even when we do our own research, there's a difference between us saying "Hi, this is Mike from WoW.com," and them saying "Hi, this is Mike from the New York Times." Oracle isn't likely to tell us inside information about their biggest systems, but they are much more likely to tell the NYT about it, because potential customers do read that paper. I agree that they're pros, but they have resources and a reputation that we haven't been able to build up yet (and likely never will -- we're a site that reports on video games). That doesn't mean we aren't pros, just a different kind.

You make a good point that we should do our own research, and I will retort that we do, though because of time and money, not necessarily as often as I'd like.

Also, haha, no of course I am not a robo-- zzzZZZ---

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