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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level

Even their RDBMS and SQL was copied from ideas that came from IBM. And I recall either E. F. Codd or one of the SQL guys making a remark about Oracle's less-than-saviour sales tactics, even back in the 90s.