Yes but on top their software is clunky and lacks basic usability?

Broadcom support portal goes brrrrrr

Military contracts

Once you start using their software you cannot stop

It is really performant for the job it is required to do, they sell haxadata server which have really high performances

They’ve sponsored some really cool sailboats

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Team_USA

JDK is the greatest scam ever.

When sonething needs JDK, most people usually just download the first one they find withoit much thought, just like with any dependency, which is Oracle’s, instead of OpenJDK.

Oracle will hit go after companies where their employees unknowlingly installed their JDK for some minor thing, and hit them with multimillion fine for breaking their license after a while. Pr at least I remember hearing they used to.

Blocking anything Oracle company-wide, especially JDK, is the first thing an IT admin should do.

A prior company I worked at had a compliance division whose work was about 80% Oracle. As in, their attention over preventing Oracle JRE installs in favour of Azul Java was 4× higher than ensuring anything Microsoft - or anything else under the sun, actually - was properly licensed.

Yet they keep working for an evil company. They could have not done that. Had a little integrity. But no, so…

Oh hey I’m from the future where you get judged harshly for where you choose to work.

auditing their customers and nailing them to wall

Vendor lock-in is quite profitable.

Big on Govt projects too

They exist for the same reason McAfee exists. They’re a CIA front.

Fr? Super interested do you know where I can read about this? :)

There’s relatively little information given how prominent these companies are. But the CIA was the first customer of both companies, and were most likely involved in their founding. Here’s a article to get you started on Oracle: sfgate.com/…/oracle-s-coziness-with-government-go…

John McAfee claimed he never used McAfee VirusScan. He never said why but while on the run in Belize he said no one should use VirusScan. My wild guess is that it might be because it scans for lots of stuff that aren’t in your interest as a user, and probably provides a convenient backdoor into your computer for certain people.

If you want the weird stuff on Oracle there’s a crazy woman who’s obsessed with Larry Ellison that writes all kinds of things about him on a place called the Drey Dossier.

very very cool thanks for sharing!

Their sales and especially enterprise sales team are good at convincing people that they really need MySQL. Once their pitch works, then come the lawyers and the nailing part

I got my first computer at 15, in 2005, and even then they were very clearly bad just from my newbie experience and seeing forums posts. The word itself is so tainted for me because of them. One of the companies that “enshittified” way ahead of the curve.

I interviewed with them a few years ago and the dev I talked to said it was the best job he ever had.

That was the only time I ever heard anything positive about Oracle.