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Re:Java Is Still Free by mr_overalls on Monday October 15, 2018 @10:47AM (#18220109)
> They make their money off of taking simple things and making them extraordinarily complicated.

And then extorting money from your company via the threat of lawsuits if, speaking purely hypothetically, your company is determined - because of said processor-vs-cores distinction - to be out-of-bounds on the number of installed databases during an audit.

Oracle has all of the ethics and humanity of a lawnmower.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246

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Re:Java Is Still Free by teilo on Monday October 15, 2018 @11:54AM (#18220724)
The only inroad Oracle has made into my company has been EssBase (a component of their Hyperion platform), and we run that against MSSQL. They keep calling, hoping for more.

Last time I told the salesperson: "I will not bring any more Oracle products into my company for the simple reason that Larry Ellison is an asshole who is hostile to his customers." The response? "Yeah, I get that a lot."

Honestly, I felt sorry for the guy.

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