• db2@sopuli.xyz
      31·
      1 year ago

      They tried to wreck Android also.

      Google a few years later: Hold my beer.

    • Zink@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Godort@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • nik282000@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    If it weren’t for VirtualBox I would avoid them all together. It’s just so damned convenient though.

  • ChrisLicht@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • mwguy@infosec.pub
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • DangerMouse@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • Jajcus@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    They destroy everything they touch…

    I am only happy for the damaged they made to MySQL popularity. ;-)

  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    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