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> drop their business I doubt it. Oracle has done a great job dissuading new business by suing customers for discussing benchmarks, suing customers for discuss
by imglorp 7y ago
> drop their business
I doubt it. Oracle has done a great job dissuading new business by suing customers for discussing benchmarks, suing customers for discussing security, auditing customers, jacking up prices, jacking up penalties, suing everyone else, etc... Plenty of reasons to drop already.
Everyone left stays because they're in deep and migration would be worse.
- coldpie 7y ago> Oracle has done a great job dissuading new business by suing customers for discussing benchmarks, suing customers for discussing security, auditing customers, jacking up prices, jacking up penalties, suing everyone else, etc... Do you have some sources, or specific instances I could do my own searching for? Feel free to email me privately. I'm somewhat serious about trying to kill Oracle in retaliation for what they've done here.
- imglorp 7y agoSure. Threatening benchmarkers: * https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-why-you-rarely-see-database-benchmarks/ * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886333 Buy competitors then switch terms on unwitting customers: * https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/22/oracle_shoddy_service_license_denials_aimed_to_force_adoption_of_cloud_service_lawsuit_claims/ * https://outline.com/YUFYFK Threatening security researchers: * https://boingboing.net/2015/08/11/oracles-cso-demands-an-end-t.html Oh yeah they sue employees too: * https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/26/oracle_sues_employee_undo_arbitration_loss/ There's also something that bit me personally, probably in the fine print somewhere. If you drop support, you have to pay 3x to get back into it. Something like "treble fees".