Oracle, savior of FOSS - eviltoast
  • scytale@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oracle does acquire competitors just to kill them off. The only way you survive an acquisition is if you are a product that they do not have yet, and that they need you more than you need them.

    • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      but it doesn’t change the fact that many organizations chose between those two databases plenty of times before Oracle acquired Sun.

      Sure, but the choice is: can we not use Oracle and if the answer is yes, then they won’t.

      I understand what you’re saying. I am a database engineer and have worked on several with the business model of taking customers away from Oracle/SQL server/DB2. But I wouldn’t call our products competitors to those. Well, maybe SQL server but that’s a different story. You can’t really be competition if you can’t serve the same customer base in terms of capabilities.

      Also, whenever Oracle or DB2 actually wanted to keep a customer, they just made a low enough offer that made them attractive (remember they don’t have a list price) and we’d be left standing. In fact, I’m pretty sure we were used several times just to get those two to make a better offer…