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Sure, but what else could they say publicly? Of course the most reasonable thing would be not to say anything at all and work together with the credible sources
by dimman 11y ago
Sure, but what else could they say publicly? Of course the most reasonable thing would be not to say anything at all and work together with the credible sources and provide something better than a threatening legal letter.
Lets just hope the black hat hackers read this and comply so we can continue to have "safe" Oracle software.
- jaawn 11y agoSince Oracle has made it clear that they do not want to collaborate with third parties on their code, the most reasonable responses would be either 1) trust them and follow their agreement or 2) don't trust them and use a different solution (probably something open source or based on open source)
- werber 11y agoI thought using Oracle anything was like a doctor prescribing an expensive new drug instead of the trusted, tested and generic version for a free game of golf and lunch for the office.
- ams6110 11y agoI really only have experience with the RDBMS product but I'd say it's more like the doctor presribing an expensive but highly effective drug for which there is no generic that is quite as good. Oracle's database is very good. If you really need it, there is no substitute. But that said, kind of like a F1 race car, you probably don't need it (unless you own an F1 race team).
- davidgerard 11y ago> If you really need it, there is no substitute. It is worth checking if this is the case. e.g. at my workplace, we're going through an Oracle->Postgres migration and it's WONDERFUL. Everything is much better now. Just from being able to have a clustered PG pair per app instead of a centralised expensive monster box. Oracle's database is very good indeed: it takes data in, it gives it back, it does so very efficiently. But everything else about it is enough reason to look elsewhere.