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I don't get the impression that Oracle really cares about startups. It costs a shitload to license Oracle, and the companies that fork out that kind of money do
by meepmorp 15y ago
I don't get the impression that Oracle really cares about startups. It costs a shitload to license Oracle, and the companies that fork out that kind of money do so because they're running SAP or Siebel, PeopleSoft, data warehousing, legacy LOB apps, etc.
There's lots of old, conservative, slowly changing companies out there that have craploads of money and need (for certain meanings of the term) Oracle. Having control over Java gives them a lot more leverage in those markets, too.