themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoVMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcomarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1641arrow-down15cross-posted to: arstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
arrow-up1636arrow-down1external-linkVMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcomarstechnica.comthemachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square140fedilinkcross-posted to: arstechnica_index@rss.ponder.cat
minus-squaredevfuuu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up142·2 months agoIt’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
minus-squarepyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·2 months agoAnyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
minus-squareFranklin@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 months agoI’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoWhy? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
minus-squareOsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 months agoNot only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orgcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoThe CIA
minus-squareTaleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoThey have some very big military contracts
It’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
Who are Oracle’s customers?
MBAs
Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
I’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
Not only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
The CIA
Project Oracle babyyyy
They have some very big military contracts