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VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Who are Oracle's customers?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment

[–] Franklin 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Not only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They have some very big military contracts