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Re:Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back contro... by notimetorelax on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @04:38PM (#20169040)
It’s the usual, Oracle did something similar to CERN a few years back. Lock in and profit!
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Re:Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back contro... by tomxor on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:05PM (#20169313)
Did CERN manage to migrate away?
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Re:Microsoft Alternatives project (MAlt): Taking back contro... by notimetorelax on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:27PM (#20169999)
Back then we just paid, don’t know if this changed. Oracle and PL/SQL was deeply embedded, I don’t think this would be feasible. There were terabytes of beam data in Oracle DBs and lots of software relying on the dialect.
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