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Re:Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories by arkitaip on Monday March 25, 2013 @06:54PM (#5440256)
An entire eco system - many which are at the forefront of big data - disinterested about Oracle's products is cause for concern, yes. And it's not just the startups but every person who reads about and tries to emulate them in the future, people who are now very unlikely to even look at Oracle's offerings let alone use them.
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Re:Arch Linux: MariaDB replaces MySQL in repositories by coldtea on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @06:46PM (#5446555)
I don't think those people and corporations matter to Oracle.

Oracle doesn't go after startups. Or even companies like Facebook or Dropbox etc.

It goes after: government agencies, banks, insurance companies, multi-nationals, huge retail chains, logistics, payroll, and such. And it does a killing at it.

Web style big-data are not Oracle's domain.

And it's not like those startup people will afterwards (when they "grow up") go work in the enterprise and use Mongo and MariaDB there. It's just different kind of problem domains altogether.

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