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Seems a bit antitrust-y? Letting Microsoft own SQL Server and Oracle Database, .NET as well as Java?

• jrockway 3y ago
  Meanwhile, everyone is just using Go and Postgres for free.
  • dralley 3y ago
    >everyone HN is not a representative sample of industry. Postgresql and Go are, of course, well-used, but Java and MySQL / Oracle are still absolutely massive.
  • dns_snek 3y ago
    s/everyone/a minority/ Oracle, Java, C#, MS SQL might not be flashy in tech startups and on HN, but they are absolutely dominant in the wild.
    • jrockway 3y ago
      All I'm saying is that there are viable alternatives. Oracle and SQL Server being successful doesn't really force anyone into using either of those things. Similarly, sure, .NET and Java are popular enough, but they have alternative runtimes available (remember when Oracle sued Google over that). To me, I don't think the industry landscape changes meaningfully if these tools were to become unavailable.