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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

They have some very big military contracts

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tja 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours 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