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It's not about Oracle the db product, it's about Oracle the company. Why did you think everyone was saying the "Oracle database is predatory", that makes no se

• JacKTrocinskI 7y ago
  That is fair, when I enter an HN post I automatically think of HN as hosting technical discussions, not business, and that is why I decided to look at the technical side.
  • bdcravens 7y ago
    Looking at the front page now (and virtually any time), there's quite a few articles that are more of a business or a political bend than technical. A quick search of "Oracle" from the homepage search (only in the last year, since your account isn't much older than that), shows most articles are non-technical in nature. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=true&query=oracle&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...
• czep 7y ago
  > Why did you think everyone was saying the "Oracle database is predatory", that makes no sense. A case could be made that the database itself is predatory, insofar as Oracle encourages use of non-standard functions that make migration to an alternative very difficult. 10 years ago (at Amazon in fact) was the last time I used Oracle and I've never felt any desire to use it again. I wasted far too much of my working life fixing queries that used the silly outer join operator (+) or debugging proprietary functions that already had a perfectly good ANSI alternative.
  • scarface74 7y ago
    Every database has non standard functions, syntax, and behaviors.