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When they threaten you with lawsuits for using their software, and make their pricing completely opaque so you don’t really know what you owe (Comcast style), why would you knowingly choose that? Postgres is pretty darn good these days.

I still love Java, but I won’t be surprised if that language becomes a business risk because of Oracle’s behavior in other spaces.

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You must have missed the Amazon Corretto announcement— there’s an Amazon JDK now.

My guess is that like they did with Google, with time, Oracle will go after all the OpenJDK derivatives.

To be clear the licensing appears to be open enough so that this shouldn’t be a real threat, but IANAL.

I'm sure it will be priced at just below the cost in legal fees to defend yourself..

Coretto passes TCK (as well as RedHat and Zulu, amongst others out there), there's nothing to sue for.

Google did not have an OpenJDK alternative, they had a implementation of a language and stdlib that was 99% identical to Java.

Oracle owns Java. Amazon just builds its own version.

> Postgres

Yes, maybe there will be built in automatic fail over in a few years so you don't have to hack it together using a bunch of scripts.

Of course there's overlap in functionality and most companies should probably chose PG over Oracle. But PG is a joke in some areas like the above mentioned.

Maybe PG even gets kickbacks as a feature. Who knows!

> Yes, maybe there will be built in automatic fail over in a few years so you don't have to hack it together using a bunch of scripts.

thanks microsoft !!

https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover

> curl https://install.citusdata.com/community/rpm.sh | sudo bash

Yeahh I guess not. Let me know when I don't have to hack it together with a bunch of scripts and the PG team takes availability seriously.

It's on yum.postgresql.org, the official repo. Come on!

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