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No, not everything negative is the new Oracle. AWS has very little in common with how Oracle has operated historically.

Oracle didn't build their company in the style of AWS Redis, that cloning maneuver. Oracle's database was a pioneer. Oracle didn't get where they are by cloning open source and claiming it as their own. Despite the numerous bad things that can be said about Oracle's culture, that's not one of the key negatives about Oracle.



Agreed. Not an Oracle fan boy but they didn't deserve to be brought up in the context.


They killed and re-proprietarized OpenSolaris.


Had OpenSolaris developed a sufficient community outside of Sun/Oracle, this would have been much less of an issue. Which is why community is a big deal. A large company can always decide that some project is no longer interesting and, if they're the only ones supporting it, it's going to die. They certainly have no obligation to support it.




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