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What actual reason is there to build anything new on oracle? MySQL is obsoleted by one of MariaDB, Postgres or Galera, especially for new things - and in my boo

by tetha 8y ago

What actual reason is there to build anything new on oracle? MySQL is obsoleted by one of MariaDB, Postgres or Galera, especially for new things - and in my book, OracleDB is as well for new things. The OpenJDK supplies enough java to build big things and even the use of java might be debated. This changed during the last decade, but at this point, oracle thrives on things large corporates depend upon. There is no reason to start anything outside of a large enterprise with Oracle investment with any oracle dependency. Quite the opposite.

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flafla2 8y ago
I think Microsoft is trying (and, so far, succeeding) to consume this market with their C#/.NET offerings. Their open-sourcing of .NET Core and their commitment to cross-platform makes C# (which, of course, has similar syntax and standard libraries to java) an ever more attractive option.
- sjellis 8y ago
  "I think Microsoft is trying (and, so far, succeeding) to consume this market with their C#/.NET offerings. Their open-sourcing of .NET Core and their commitment to cross-platform makes C# (which, of course, has similar syntax and standard libraries to java) an ever more attractive option." I've seen an interview with one of the managers for .NET who said that directly: they specifically want to compete with Java, and made the platform cross-platform and Open Source partly because Java is those things.