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Oracle, I have a proposition for you. Why don't you release Java and then curl up and die? There is not a reason for you to exist. Your mojo was 20 years ago, why prolong the agony. Save us all trouble and go home.

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Would it be possible that when the old guard die or retire at oracle a new guard would be more open and similar to Microsoft’s new stance on open source ?

No. Oracle is all about delivering minimal viable product to institutional customers.

What percentage required of Alphabet+Amazon total capital would be required to just buy oracle and make java totally open source?

Edit: make _all_ products open source Apache license style

What? Java is open source and there have been open source JDKs for many years.

Well, GPL is copyleft right? So I mean making the license less restrictive

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I'm told Oracle's RDBMS has top notch performance at scale - I'd be interested to hear some informed discussion on the topic.

GLWT. Oracle's legal department aggressively prevents the publishing of benchmarks. The EULA for any version of the Oracle RDBMS specifically prohibits releasing benchmarks.

Yeah, they came up with the "DeWitt Clause" and it has made its way into other database EULAs as well. Benchmarks aren't everything though, and they do have their limitations anyway.

Gary, we're working on publishing database numbers. In the meantime, we've made our compute and storage numbers public, in addition to the test suites we used, so you can reproduce the testing if desired. https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/high-performan...

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