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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by throw_away on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:55AM (#16689710)
And yet Oracle ships an S3 compatibility API: https://docs.us-phoenix-1.oraclecloud.com/Content/Object/Tas...
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:53PM (#16690405)
Hell, Oracle got started by cloning the SQL API.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pjmlp on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @08:27AM (#16697155)
Which they payed for, unlike Google has done with Java.

SQL standard and the respective certifications have to be payed for.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:36PM (#16703116)
The ANSI/ISO standards came out nearly a decade after Oracle's DB was released.

Before that, Oracle ripped off Chamberlin and Boyce's work. Which they should be able to do, because APIs shouldn't be copyright-able.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by pjmlp on Thursday March 29, 2018 @02:33AM (#16704978)
And how do you think standards get written, out of thin air?

At least Oracle payed something back, unlike Google, ripped off Sun and then stepped on it on their dying breath.

If it wasn't for Oracle we would be stuck porting Java 6 to other languages.

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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by monocasa on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:49PM (#16708569)
Most of the folklore seems to point to the ANSI/ISO work being done by IBM.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by manigandham on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:19PM (#16689977)
Does anyone actually use the Oracle Cloud? From my attempts, it's only full of misery and broken tech.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by nickbauman on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:17PM (#16690683)
Oracle increasingly resembles the old CA. A huge licensing portfolio company with some tech/r&d on the side where good software goes to die.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by Tloewald on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:38PM (#16690213)
So you're saying it's an Oracle product?
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by avip on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:35PM (#16692942)
It's called brand recognition.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by suyash on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:06PM (#16690553)
It's growing rapidly in Enterprise IT on all all three fronts IAAS, PAAS, SAAS.
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Re:Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google by CobrastanJorji on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:14PM (#16690648)
Do you know something nobody else does? Because the news seems to indicate that its growth has been slowing for a year now, which is not good news in a rapidly growing market. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-apos-cloud-growth-disa...
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