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But, I was told (by Cantrill and echoed by HN), that Oracle is a rotten company that "ships mediocrity"?

Do they actually have the best RDBMS in the industry in terms of performance and feature set? (I guess this is a hard thing to answer given how these things can be fairly subjective)

Maybe the real problem is that it's better, but still not worth the cost (both money, and the cost of being an Oracle customer).

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>"ships mediocrity"

Name me one VM that is remotely as advance as GraalVM.

I dont like Oracle as a business. People hate them for suing Google on open source / Copyright and API. But one Google is not without its fault in the case and two, whether you like or hate a company has nothing to do with its technical capability.

It seems in the tech industry, some company can do no wrong, and some company can do no right.

I have dealt with Oracle in the enterprise space, and endured their audit-turned-blackmail monetization strategies. They have a mixed bag of tech, some excellent, some mediocre - but their business practices are absolutely revolting and predatory.

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