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Yikes, call the burn unit.

Context: https://www.webpronews.com/larry-ellison-amazon-oracle-datab...

>Aurora is an open source database. They just it picked up and made it closed source on Amazon.

This isn't remotely true at all. As far as I'm aware most of the work inside of aurora is in the storage side which is a complete rewrite with a new architecture as per here [1].

>Who develops Aurora? That would be Oracle. It’s called MySQL.

Christ.

1. https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/amazon-aurora-a...

> You know who else uses Oracle? Another company that hates us, SAP uses Oracle everywhere. SAP ten years ago said I hate Oracle, I’m getting off of Oracle, I can’t stand these guys, especially this guy that goes on TV and makes fun of us. They say we have this great new database called Hanna.

He can't even write the name correctly.

To be fair, it's a transcription of the Fox News video interview that's at the end of the GP's article. He didn't write it.

Ah, that makes sense.

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