Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software

Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by rodgerd on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:11PM (#9703628)

> 2) Lawsuits. With the right incentives to lawyers and politicians, Oracle might be able to get Lotus v. Borland effectively reversed; then they could start licensing the use of SQL itself!

That's what they're very close to achieving with Oracle v Google.

However, I don't think Oracle would be the winner in the "Who owns SQL?" conversation.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by logicchains on Friday June 12, 2015 @01:38AM (#9704245)

If that happened and IBM said to Oracle "We want 30% of your database revenue if you wish to keep using our SQL API", would there be anything Oracle could do?

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by rodgerd on Friday June 12, 2015 @02:26AM (#9704339)

Point out IBM's non-mainframe business depends almost entirely on Java.

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