Today..not worth the price tag. And if you do pay the price tag, you're going to need some high priced DBAs to baby it along.
To your list I would add that with Hudson they achieved such an own-goal that all anyone knows is the renamed fork, Jenkins. (Which I believe was named after Leeroy Jenkins...)
Agreed. Having worked with and delivered some great solutions with Oracle DB in the 2000's, I've been telling people since at least 2010, that Oracle used to be the answer to the question, "which enterprise database?", but now is the answer to "which is the one vendor I should avoid at all costs?"
IIRC, they wanted an English butler name[1] snooty enough to match "Hudson" - and Jenkins fit the bill (you can almost hear the British accent)
Oracle software licenses are so opaque that there's almost no way to be compliant and that's by design.
So in essence: Either you pay more for your existing installation or buy some additional shit, which you don't need, or else.
The or else is the threat of a software audit, which is almost guaranteed to find you non-compliant and gives you 30 days to either pay up or get rid of every Oracle software component. Best of luck with that.
There are umpteen stories about this behavior on the web. For example this: [1].
Oracle's business model is not really technology, but a licensing racket for enterprise customers. Sort of
Nice company you have here, would be a shame if something happens to it
[1] https://www.netnetweb.com/content/blog/oracle-audits-will-ge...
edit : rephrased a sentence
Instead of a license, the SQLite source code offers a blessing:
May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
I'd say they are doing a mediocre job on the whole. But I may just be bitter over recent bugs like renaming a table crashing the server.
Any ideas why?
Nah. If it were any good then the license wouldn't prohibit you from benchmarking it.