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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 05:48:04 JST feld

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   > I hope Oracle dies from cancer filled with cancer, yes, the entire company. They deserve it.
   
   it would kill the economy. a ton of F500 companies would just fall apart without Oracle's software and support, especially their support and custom patches etc they offer as a service to big spenders. They're locked in and never getting out.
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     THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD (icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 05:48:05 JST THE MARTYR OF BUTLERIAN JIHAD

     If you think that Google or Microsoft are Evil Corporations, you haven't really seen Evil.

     Meet Larry Ellison, who is almost 80 and somehow still alive. Larry heads Oracle Corporation since founding it. Every single product that Oracle has ever bought was either killed or turned to shit.

     Oracle bought MySQL (mostly to kill it), which in turn resulted in MariaDB fork. In 2023, I can say I haven't seen MySQL/MariaDB used for quite a while for anything except PixelFed (for some reason) and Amarok (yes, the music player).
     Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and KILLED EVERYTHING SUN HAD EVER MADE WITH FIRE with the sole exception of Java. SPARC? Dead. Solaris? On life support. In fact, Solaris was open source/free software/whatever you wish to call it before the acquisition. After the acquisition, no Solaris code was ever published again.

     Let's talk about the main product of Oracle Corporation, the Oracle Database Management System. Did you know that Oracle explicitly prohibits publishing any benchmark results without prior approval? That's right, if you own a licensed copy of Oracle DBMS, you can't tell anyone how good it is. Because if you do, your license will likely be revoked and you might even get a fat lawsuit. So far, this is the one of the two databases I know of with the license having this clause. IBM has a similar thing in their DB2, but only to an extent. IBM DB2 license requires that all published benchmarks must provide full information for reproducing the results, including hardware specs, OS settings, et cetera. MSSQL is the other DBMS with a license clause prohibiting sharing benchmark results without their prior approval, but this is Microsoft we're talking about.

     The feud between benchmarks and Oracle goes back to the early 80s. In 1983, Dr. David DeWitt benchmarked Oracle DBMS and published results, which made Larry furious. To the extent that Larry wanted DeWitt fired from the university where he worked. Rumour has it, for years after that DeWitt couldn't land jobs because many companies were afraid to lose Oracle licenses for hiring him. Imagine being that petty.

     Anyhow, I'm glad Oracle doesn't own any product I use or I am forced to use. I hope Oracle dies from cancer filled with cancer, yes, the entire company. They deserve it.

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 05:53:45 JST Sexy Moon

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     @feld @icon_of_computational_sin Amazon decided to get rid of their Oracle dependence and it took them about five years to complete.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 05:56:08 JST Sexy Moon

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     • Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙🇱🇧🧯
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     @jeffcliff @feld @icon_of_computational_sin Oracle databases, sorry.
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     Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙🇱🇧🧯 (jeffcliff@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 05:56:09 JST Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙🇱🇧🧯

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     amazon stopped using java/no longer uses android??
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 08:54:06 JST Sexy Moon

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     @djsumdog @icon_of_computational_sin The company started as a CIA contractor, that's who they sold their first database to.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 08:54:07 JST djsumdog

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     Is this the guy who owned 80% of the Island across from the one that burned down in Hawaii? Oracle also has insane government ties and contracts for mass surveillance systems:
     
     https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Oracle
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     T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 08:57:04 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:

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     @icon_of_computational_sin hes so hated that not even companies like oracle
     I have NEVER seen a SINGLE corporate entity that WANTS to work with orcale tools
     EVER
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