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> And every one I’ve heard of considers Oracle a predatory vendor and they want to stop using them. Ok, but talk is cheap. If you want to know what people actu

> And every one I’ve heard of considers Oracle a predatory vendor and they want to stop using them. Ok, but talk is cheap. If you want to know what people actually want, ignore what they say and pay attention to what they do. Oracle's revenue and net income have been pretty steady for at least the past 5 years. Unless they've found some major new revenue stream, it certainly doesn't look like their customers are leaving in droves.

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It seems like you’re speaking generally and don’t know just how evil Oracle is as a vendor. Finding new revenue streams is exactly what Oracle has been doing. Take just one example - Java. Created in 1995 by SunOS, officially made open source in 2006. Purchased by Oracle in 2009. Demanded ludicrous runtime licensing fees in 2019. Want another example? MySQL. I know first hand of a handful of large cap companies completely shedding themselves of Oracle and have heard of many more that plan to.