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I swore off using any closed source Oracle products after watching a large customer of mine getting this treatment years ago with the Oracle Database. At the time I was wedded to the JVM world so it became my insistence to never use anything but OpenJDK on any device. With their latest finger wagging around Red Hat's maneuvers, which I don't agree with btw, I was thinking back to those days. I wondered if they were still up to those shenanigans, assuming that they were. Yep they are. Never ever trust Oracle. To the Red Hat adjacent Linux distros that hitched their wagon to Oracle in that battle, may god have mercy on their souls. #oracle #linux #java
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/05/unsolicited_oracle_emails_java/

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in reply to Hank G ☑️

My dad, who was generally fairly low key, HATED Oracle.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

@Hank G ☑️ having to talk to Oracle like to some possible fraudster tells really much about that company.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

Oracle is an abusive supplier. Oracle Database is top tier. But if one doesn't absolutely need its performance and can do without... it's just good business sense to do so. Otherwise Oracle will be a forever uncertain (but certainly high) expense.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

PostgreSQL generally can and should be used instead of Oracle.
in reply to Hank G ☑️

The whole article seems like an ad for oracle - it doesn't even mention that there are completely free alternatives.