3 ms·

Are there any tech people on here choosing any oracle products? With the exception of the DB, I have never met anyone who used anything from oracle willingly.

Are there any tech people on here choosing any oracle products? With the exception of the DB, I have never met anyone who used anything from oracle willingly. It was always because someone high up who got taken to lunch and came back with a signed contract.

mtlynch 1y ago
Not for anything real, but Oracle Cloud's free tier is atypically nice. Oracle Cloud's free tier includes a 4 CPU / 24 GB RAM Ampere A1 ARM VM. On AWS / GCP, an equivalent VPS would be $100+/month, but on Oracle cloud it's free.
- baal80spam 1y ago
  > on Oracle cloud it's free And technically can go poof at any time, I guess?
  - mtlynch 1y ago
    Yep, but great for stuff where that's okay. I use mine as a CI server and for fuzz testing.
- rjh29 1y ago
  Sounds good but I note there's a limit of 3000 OCPU hours and 18000 GB hours a month. Any idea how easy that is to exceed? Could get expensive. edit: and 200GB of free block volume storage WITH backups? That seems like a good replacement for standard cloud storage.
- dec0dedab0de 1y ago
  I do like free
qcnguy 1y ago
You mean other than Java?