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What does Oracle actually do? Take other businesses' data hostage for profit | Good Work [11:47] (www.youtube.com)
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

and Oracle sues you for dreaming about any other database.

What's this?

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 23 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Oracle sues for everything, when they sue you, they can ask for their payment to be related to the total employees of the company, to take that as users of the Oracle Database (trademark)(copyright)(shat my pants) or Java (do I need to repeat?). Yeah, they sue for EVERYTHING.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Can I get an article/source about this? I'm in the mood to be mad about Oracle

[–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 11 hours ago

The video glances at this, but this happened where I work, so I can't give the direct sources for the case against the place I work, but if even the Oracle employees talk about the draconic bullshit Oracle does, imagine what happens to the companies/governments they sue.

[–] multiplewolves@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

I can chime in here with “my former employer hired a full-time lawyer after being sued by Oracle over something trivial”. Company of less than 200. They settled and they still have at least one permanent legal staffer.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Oracle licenses software by CPU (or at least they did). But not in the way you think, they mean by discrete logical CPUs. So if you virtualize one of their apps and give the VM 4 CPUs, do you need four licenses? No, since it could run on any of the CPUs in the host, you need to buy however many that is.

I went to look for more info on this and couldn't find anything reliable, but I did find an article from Amazon saying that if you run something like this in AWS, you need enough licenses to cover the entire goddamn AWS zone.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Everything that Oracle makes really feels like they got the idea from a random engineer they stuck up on their lunch break.