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Knowing what we do about Oracle's licensing practices and how their sales people are basically just loan sharks that will take your kneecaps out if you don't pa
by ascendantlogic 10y ago
Knowing what we do about Oracle's licensing practices and how their sales people are basically just loan sharks that will take your kneecaps out if you don't pay their extortion fees, why would you ever want to put your entire operation in their hands? I would assume they'd have no issue cutting you off from your entire infrastructure at the drop of a hat if there was a billing dispute.
- greedo 10y agoLets not act like the other vendors in the database arena are cherubim. MS, IBM, Oracle, NetApp, EMC, all perform audits, and try to squeeze the most out of large enterprises. They see large companies just like casinos; as whales. And part of that is because it's a lot easier to just buy the big packages than try to roll postgres or mysql into a stack built up on other OTS software. For example, I'd prefer to run Debian instead of RHEL, but since the stack I have to support uses Oracle and Websphere, my hands are tied.
- gaius 10y agoI'd prefer to run Debian instead of RHEL, but since the stack I have to support uses Oracle Here you go: https://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/howto-install-oracle-on-debian-wheezy/ https://gaiustech.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/howto-install-ora...