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Next up: oracle sues Amazon for not using their product.

• philjohn 7y ago
  I wonder if their latency and performance claims in this blog post fall foul of Oracle's "No publishing benchmark results against our competitors".
  • umvi 7y ago
    What? How could that be legal? You can't say "Comparisons with competitors are not allowed" under a free market... right?
    • deleted 7y ago
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    • philjohn 7y ago
      If it's in the contract not a lot you can do ... https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-why-you-rarely-see-database-benchmarks/ https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-...
    • marcosdumay 7y ago
      Every non-free database management system has this clause.
      • james_s_tayler 7y ago
        Because Oracle started it back in the day when they got a negative review in a benchmark test.
    • alexis_fr 7y ago
      Atlassian Jira’s license, section 3.2: « (h) use the Software for competitive analysis or to build competitive products; (i) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Software; or (j) encourage or assist any third party to do any of the foregoing. » https://www.atlassian.com/legal/software-license-agreement https://www.atlassian.com/legal/software-license-agreement
      • rhinoceraptor 7y ago
        Am I permitted to say that Jira is a bloated, festering slug of a web app?
        • tcarn 7y ago
          Your doorbell is ringing, I would answer it. It’s the police, with a warrant.
  • BubRoss 7y ago
    Maybe now that their contract has expired it doesn't matter.
• AtlasBarfed 7y ago
  How much of Oracle runs on AWS? And how many of those customers are evaluating Aurora? Mwahahaha!
  • cardingggg 7y ago
    Well, Aurora _is_ the fastest growing AWS service, sooooo.