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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by zelly on Sunday March 03, 2019 @01:24AM (#19293064)
It always amazed me that a primarily database company was worth that much money, since PostgreSQL is free and insanely well documented.

It’s like a Fortune 500 company being based on selling the bash shell and tools for using bash.

Open source for infrastructure level software has historically been wildly successful.

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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by mruts on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @10:54AM (#19319809)
Isn’t that exactly what Red Hat does? And Warren Buffet even just bought a stake in them.
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