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MySQL would never have eaten Oracle. Oracle had /has a huge installed base of corporate/government customers who are risk adverse to switching out their database for fear of breaking critical systems.

No one building a business today would ever choose Oracle, but their hold on legacy customers is pretty strong. They will probably die a slow death as their customer base dwindles if they can’t pivot.

They are fairly similar to IBM



> They are fairly similar to IBM

This feels unfair. When was the last time for example that Oracle manufactured a CPU?


Apparently in September 2017, when they introduced the SPARC M8.


They discontinued development though. It was meant as a lighthearted comment. They are indeed weirdly similar in some ways.

Maybe Oracle will start developing quantum chips.




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