MySQL is rubbish compared to many things (seriously. It's kind of amazing), although I won't discount how useful is, and how much Oracle has made the situation

MySQL is rubbish compared to many things (seriously. It's kind of amazing), although I won't discount how useful is, and how much Oracle has made the situation better. The JVM stuff and virtualbox are both pretty good. I don't know how Oracle has refrained from mucking them up. But if there's any product that you actually have to pay for, Oracle has screwed it up.