Web Applications

While I'm not terrible happy with Oracle (what decade is it? Have a look at Oracle's default sql commandline tool and you're right back when I wasn't even born. Commandline history? Tab completion? Even just navigation with the arrow keys in the commandline? The future is really cool... Yes, I'm sure nobody seriously uses sqlplus), they just scored on this: I needed to download one of their products. I tried to create an account, saw that I already had one, had the password reset and mailed to me (extra point for not just sending me the old one) and signed in, getting a page where I could confirm my data (address data and subscription to their various newsletters), and hit the “continue” button that was at the bottom, whereupon the application still remembered that I wanted to download the file and immediately delivered the requested file. The fact that I didn't remember having an account highlights that their “I don't want email from Oracle” option really does mean exactly that. I really did not get a single email from them.

All this is extremely trivial. Sadly, it makes me happy that there is at least one company that actually manages to do this, which goes entirely against my experience with other vendors' web jungles.