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minus-square@devfuuu@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglish142•1 month agoIt’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
minus-square@pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish22•1 month agoAnyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
minus-squareFranklinlinkfedilinkEnglish20•1 month agoI’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
minus-square@Tja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish5•1 month agoWhy? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
minus-square@OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish22•1 month agoNot 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
minus-square@Taleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 month agoThey have some very big military contracts
It’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
Who are Oracle’s customers?
MBAs
Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
I’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?
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
The CIA
Project Oracle babyyyy
They have some very big military contracts