If any long-term users (say 10+ years) have had a good experience with Oracle, I would like to hear from them!

VirtualBox.

Unless one of your employees downloaded the extension pack and now Oracle is after you.

Oracle is not known for its generosity.

I find that Oracle has tremendous generosity on individual level. That's how people become familiar with their products and services.

It's when you're in production and particularly as a billion+ dollar company that screws get properly tightened!

But from the time I was a student in 90s to occasional dabbler now, I find their free / personal / individual / non-prod offerings to in fact be extremely generous.

Famously, the most litigious and generally obnoxious to deal with enterprise software company on the planet. Or ale doesn’t have customers, they have hostages.

I take it you've never worked with Oracle.

Sudden suspensions with no chance to appeal or explanation, regardless if you were a paying customer or just a free tier user. It's ridiculous.

Oracle is the worst.