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Re:Babelfish: SQL Server-to-Postgres Translation Layer on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:05PM (#25298444)
The Oracle wire protocol contains a (copyrighted) haiku, so no one can reverse-engineer the Oracle wire protocol without infringing on Oracle's copyright.
Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:03AM (#13518824)
Azure has always been charged at "1 core = 1 Oracle Processor" so this new scheme only harmonizes licensing on Azure and AWS. It's still double of on-premise pricing.
Re:Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:00AM (#13518811)
There's a leading DB vendor (at least according to Gartner) which will give you enterprise support if you run MySQL or PostgreSQL.

AWS.

While multi-master replication is still not there (it's still just a synchronous standby and read slaves) all of the heavy lifting is done for you.