Oracle stands for “One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison”
Damn. Gotta save this one.
I always heard the R stood for Rich
I’ll never forgive them for destroying Sun
They tried to wreck Android also.
Google a few years later: Hold my beer.
Sun Solaris is where I really learned to use *nix. In college my department had a whole computer lab filled with Sun workstations. Definitely a more interesting place than all the standard windows clusters.
I have never used this Oracle Solaris business.
Never again. Twice I’ve been at fast-growing startups that went with Oracle, and both times it was the worst mistake the business made.
What happened?
It’s not difficult to guess: they got EA’d. IBM’d. FaceBook’d. Their startup got bought up, hollowed out, and dissolved. All in the name of killing off competition and padding staff rolls.
I’ve found many startups are merely “investments” by some entrepreneur that were intended from inception, whether explicitly or not, to be grown to a sufficiently negotiable state and sold to the biggest buyer. That’s not to say that big tech companies don’t buy-out their competition, but many startups also dream of being bought-out.
chasing the exit is a common strategy
I wish he’d respond. But from my experience, Oracle sells you a license that’s just what you need, nothing more. They do so on good terms to get you in the door. Then when you rely on their database they jack up the rates and start ridiculous pricing strategies that either force you to rearchitect away from Oracle entirely or sacrifice your ability to use their product and force you to work around their license.
Oracle doesn’t have customers, it has hostages.
This is an enemy of my enemy case.
It makes sense to trust Oracle in this instance as they stand to lose if IBM has sole control over enterprise Linux.
However, remember that as soon as the profit motive is gone, Oracle’s support will also vanish.
How good is SuSE in this case?
“Oracle” sounds like they were trying to be as dystopian cyberpunk as possible when naming their company.
They destroy everything they touch…
I am only happy for the damaged they made to MySQL popularity. ;-)
Which one do you prefer then? Choose carefully.
Postgres
You have chosen wisely
MariaDB is pretty cool though. They’ve continued to innovate in the space and have some truthfully dope features. Like being able to create an index against a arbitrary json path of a json column.
I trust Oracle… to find a way to charge me an arm and a leg and a spleen for basic functionality.
TBH, the likes of oracle are probably what led to this. Rocky/Alma weren’t seeking profit, and neither did CentOS before it was turned into kinda stable Fedora.
Exactly, people seem to think the Rocky/CIQ contract with NASA was the breaker but that was peanuts, we all know it was Oracle.
If it weren’t for VirtualBox I would avoid them all together. It’s just so damned convenient though.
Kvm/qemu is really good too you should try it out or is there special feature holding you back on virtualbox?
Do you still have to reboot the VM to connect an USB device?
No
I just hope that SUSE keeps them in check for now.
i mine monero on their servers
I understand what you’re going for, but they have made a really amazing and powerful contribution with the OpenSPARC project, which supplies the hardware description files and EXTENSIVE documentation of the micro architecture, component layout, etc. of probably the two most powerful free/libre and open-source multi-core processors ever assembled, the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2. And this was released under the GNU General Public License. This is almost unbelievable, as hardware is still almost completely unfree. Sure, there are some PCBs and microcontrollers like those distributed by Arduino or Raspberry Pi, but the chip source for the processors on all of these is mostly proprietary. Regarding microprocessors, there are VERY FEW actual hardware designs available that are free/libre and open-source, and OpenSPARC is one of them. Granted, the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 were released to the public when Sun Microsystems was still an independent company and before they were acquired by Oracle, but Oracle is still keeping the webpages of the OpenSPARC project up! For hardware designers that aspire to make free/libre and open-source hardware, this is an invaluable resource!
Shoutout to oracle for hosting the only xonotic server in India running right now!
I have noticed they did something in open source? But I don’t know what. Somebody got a link or sum where i can find info on what happened
I think this is about the formation of the Open Enterprise Linux Association, which Oracle is a founding member of.
