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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by phd64 on Friday June 12, 2015 @09:31AM (#9705700)
Oracle doesn't care about the developer experience? Oracle doesn't care about startups? Disrespect geeks? Huh? Do you have any real justifications to these or are you just basing this on your perceptions? Why would Oracle continue driving developments in JAVA, MySQL, OpenSTACK, etc and many other open source projects if it wasn't after the developer community? And have you seen the latest Software in Silicon Cloud Development platform that’s free? https://swisdev.oracle.com

And did you know that Oracle has the Oracle Database Personal Edition which is designed to provide software developers a cost effective, yet full featured Oracle Database environment on which to develop, test and run custom or packaged applications?

https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=dstore:product:0::NO:...

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by robert_foss on Friday June 12, 2015 @10:28AM (#9706058)
Oracle just like Microsoft just aren't trusted by the community at large.

History tells us why. And there are good reasons:

[1] Oracle tells Open Document founders to leave the project

[2] Oracle takes over KSplice and stops providing it for free to competitors of Oracles Linux Distribution.

[3] Oracle suing to maintain the position that APIs are copyrightable.

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[1] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksplice

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by Roboprog on Friday June 12, 2015 @11:33AM (#9706500)
I think the MySQL strategy is something like this: Oracle knows MySQL is defective, so they promote it as THE open source database, in the hopes that serious customers will get frustrated and just buy a license for a real (Oracle) database.

Elsewhere on this thread, somebody posted a link to a DB use survey which showed PostgreSQL as the #4 DB, behind Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server. Can't let that leak out, though.

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