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Not that I'm an Oracle fan, but they do continue to develop MySQL. Both in terms of features and performance.

Oracle still invests heavily in the development of the JVM (graal and truffle aim to advance the state of art in JIT compilers)

So it's definitely not all bad (virtualbox is also used by many but unlike MySQL I don't follow the development)

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MySQL is rubbish compared to many things (seriously. It's kind of amazing), although I won't discount how useful is, and how much Oracle has made the situation better.

The JVM stuff and virtualbox are both pretty good. I don't know how Oracle has refrained from mucking them up.

But if there's any product that you actually have to pay for, Oracle has screwed it up.

The single biggest thing we're getting in Java 9 is the ability to better run different jars on the same JVM.

Meanwhile, everyone and their dog moves towards containers and similar isolation technologies.

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