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Wiped out by Oracle's legal team (patents, whatever) in 4...3...2...

• u320 4y ago
  They haven't hit EnterpriseDB who have been doing the same thing, except not open source, since forever.
  • hans_castorp 4y ago
    To my knowledge IBM's DB2 too has an "Oracle compatibility" switch that makes it also support PL/SQL.
    • martintietz 4y ago
      Exactly. db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA gives you Oracle compatibility. You can even get MySQL compatibility and I have actually used that once in the past.
• chasil 4y ago
  Were they going to wipe out the SQL/PSM standard that has been approved by ISO? "SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM They can always wipe out the Ada programming language while they're at it.
• s3000 4y ago
  How can Oracle do it when they couldn't do it for the Java API?
  • zaphirplane 4y ago
    As a fact, There are 2 ways to “win” a legal Fight, one is to get the desired judgment the other is to make fighting the case prohibitively expensive for the other party
  • tabtab 4y ago
    I thought they "half-won" that case.
• jinseokim 4y ago
  A Korean company Tmax sells Tibero, the Oracle-compatible DBMS (proprietary). AFAIK, it's quite so much "compatible" (it even has same typos with Oracle DB), and they're not sued by Oracle.