[Gllug] Snoracle (was Re: new project HA at home and away)

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:01:41PM +0000, Steve Parker wrote:
> On 20/11/10 22:49, Nix wrote:
> > Maybe Oracle will eventually learn that if you piss off the community
> > with everything you do for several years and dismember a famous old
> > Unix founding company, that it will come back to bite you.
> >
> > (Or one might hope.)
> >    
> Or maybe they will learn that you can get away with buying a great 
> engineering firm, suck it for every last dollar it is worth, and then 
> spit out the remainder, all the while ignoring the cries from those who 
> are clearly irrelevant to your purposes as they do not have their 
> wallets wide open as they obediently lie over the barrel screaming "take 
> everything you want, Larry"
> 
> (yes, I have been very close to this, and whilst I would love to see a 
> happy ending, my take-home from this has been to make sure that I have a 
> copy of the OpenSolaris source code, as we are coming to the end of an era)

I'm still baffled by why people use Oracle (database).  As a developer
I found it was so much worse than PostgreSQL ...  I certainly don't
miss the installer-from-hell or having stupid arbitrary limits on the
length of strings.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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