Re: Another License Review

The fact that Oracle is reviewing licenses is fair, they are simply charging the licenses that are really being used. The biggest issue in Oracle LMS world in my opinion is the way they changed the rules, such as the one with "Other" cloud vendors in the beginning of this year (Tim Hall commented here:
https://oracle-base.com/blog/2017/01/28/oracles-cloud-licensing-change-be-warned), or the fact that they don't recognise soft partitioning (VMWare). At least nowadays companies have several reliable options to choose. There are some very similar to Oracle, such as Tibero DB, that offers even a RAC like, Active Dataguard, partitioning, etc. And if you want to invest some more time and money, there are plenty of open source solutions as well, such as Postgres and MySQL.
Big Data-like databases (or NoSQL databases?), such as MongoDB are not RDBMS, so it is not an easy option to migrate.

On 2 November 2017 at 14:08, Redacted sender rajendra.pande for DMARC < dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org> wrote:

> *UNIX * did not win J
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> UNIX was almost a failure with fragmentation between AIX, Solaris, HPUX
> and SCO, AT&T etc etc
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> Till Mr Linus happened to come along and the rest as they say is history J
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> With improvements along the way with Intel and AMD etc
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> Maybe PostGres will fill in that spot J - tile will tell
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_
> freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Reen, Elizabeth
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 02, 2017 10:02 AM
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> *Subject:* RE: Another License Review
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> It is sad how technically good stuff seldom wins. Big Data reminds me of
> datarieve, but not as easy to use. How did Unix ever win over VMS? It is
> older than it and far more secure.
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> Sigh,
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> Liz
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_
> freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>] *On Behalf Of *Rich J
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 02, 2017 8:41 AM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Re: Another License Review
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> On 2017/11/01 17:02, Dave Herring wrote:
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> I'll 3rd that. I loved DCL.
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> I miss the lexicals and API instead of hacking the output of programs like
> "ls". DCL was truly a great scripting language, IMHO.
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> Now Oracle for OpenVMS on the other hand... One issue was that most
> (all?) ported software assumed that process creation was as inexpensive as
> it was on other platforms.
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> Just discussing the other day how relatively easy it was to write a
> pseudo-device driver in MACRO. No way I'd want to do that on any other
> platform.
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> Ahhhh, I remember when computing was fun. And now, back to reality...
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> Rich
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