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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by bluejekyll on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:43AM (#21259658)
When they threaten you with lawsuits for using their software, and make their pricing completely opaque so you don’t really know what you owe (Comcast style), why would you knowingly choose that? Postgres is pretty darn good these days.

I still love Java, but I won’t be surprised if that language becomes a business risk because of Oracle’s behavior in other spaces.

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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by onefuncman on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:47AM (#21259701)
You must have missed the Amazon Corretto announcement— there’s an Amazon JDK now.
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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by bluejekyll on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:53AM (#21259794)
My guess is that like they did with Google, with time, Oracle will go after all the OpenJDK derivatives.

To be clear the licensing appears to be open enough so that this shouldn’t be a real threat, but IANAL.

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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:55PM (#21261517)
Coretto passes TCK (as well as RedHat and Zulu, amongst others out there), there's nothing to sue for.
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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by briffle on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:40PM (#21260459)
I'm sure it will be priced at just below the cost in legal fees to defend yourself..
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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by tsimionescu on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:28AM (#21267327)
Google did not have an OpenJDK alternative, they had a implementation of a language and stdlib that was 99% identical to Java.
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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by vbezhenar on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:53PM (#21260651)
Oracle owns Java. Amazon just builds its own version.
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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by GetOutOfBed on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:39PM (#21260451)
> Postgres

Yes, maybe there will be built in automatic fail over in a few years so you don't have to hack it together using a bunch of scripts.

Of course there's overlap in functionality and most companies should probably chose PG over Oracle. But PG is a joke in some areas like the above mentioned.

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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by grumpydba on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:39PM (#21261313)
> Yes, maybe there will be built in automatic fail over in a few years so you don't have to hack it together using a bunch of scripts.

thanks microsoft !!

https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover

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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by GetOutOfBed on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:45PM (#21273137)
> curl https://install.citusdata.com/community/rpm.sh | sudo bash

Yeahh I guess not. Let me know when I don't have to hack it together with a bunch of scripts and the PG team takes availability seriously.

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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by grumpydba on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:45PM (#21274658)
It's on yum.postgresql.org, the official repo. Come on!
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Re:Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database by Keyframe on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @12:51PM (#21260629)
Maybe PG even gets kickbacks as a feature. Who knows!
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