Oracle is the archetype of "enterprisey": a massive convoluted platform that costs a fortune and requires specialists to babysit, which businesses use because m

Oracle is the archetype of "enterprisey": a massive convoluted platform that costs a fortune and requires specialists to babysit, which businesses use because many years ago there were no viable alternatives. They're much more interested in milking their cash cow than innovating, which may very well be the correct business decision, but it makes them unappealing to most hackers. None of that makes them "evil", but it does make it easy to side against them in the Google case, especially given the dislike for patent aggressors in general.