themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoVMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcomarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square126fedilinkarrow-up1629arrow-down15
arrow-up1624arrow-down1external-linkVMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcomarstechnica.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square126fedilink
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up141·2 days agoIt’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoThey have some very big military contracts
minus-squarepyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·2 days agoAnyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
minus-squareFranklin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 days agoI’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day agoWhy? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
minus-squareOsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 day agoNot only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
It’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
Who are Oracle’s customers?
They have some very big military contracts
MBAs
Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
I’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
Not only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
The CIA
Project Oracle babyyyy