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0 pointsdijit3y ago0 comments

Yet people are really happy to buy into Oracle because they have a free tier[0] (which, you probably should avoid anyway[1])

Or they argue to exhaustion that MySQL (not MariaDB) is totally fine for production, despite decades the company who now owns MySQL strangling companies to near death over minutia.

It boggles my mind.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34503883

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29514359

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yoyohello133y ago· 2 in thread

It reminds me of the old saying.

> Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM

Nobody ever got fired for buying, Oracle or Microsoft or any big incumbent. The same could definitely not be said for choosing any free software.

Ironically RHEL is IBM now.

dijitOP3y ago

I can imagine people being fired for going with Oracle.

Fail to make your budget work 5 quarters in a row and see how long you last. ;)

Or wait for a legal case to come up: someones getting fired, wether its you or a scapegoat you sacrifice.

berniedurfee3y ago

No really, nobody ever gets fired for going with Oracle or any of the big blue chip dumpster fires.

Any org with deep enough pockets to afford Oracle at scale has a deep enough org structure and bureaucracy that those huge wasteful projects produce nothing but promotions.

ilyt3y ago· 1 in thread

My Oracle free tier VM got destroyed without any info with no prompt or anything.

Then my account was put in such state where I couldn't even pay to upgrade it to paid one

> Or they argue to exhaustion that MySQL (not MariaDB) is totally fine for production, despite decades the company who now owns MySQL strangling companies to near death over minutia.

Who you gonna trust, billion dollar corporation, or man that sold that DB off to them then started making a fork ?

dijitOP3y ago

> Who you gonna trust, billion dollar corporation, or man that sold that DB off to them then started making a fork ?

Oh, that’s easy. neither.

I use postgres predominantly.

fariszr3y ago

I mean you can just use it as a free VPS, have backups of everything and you should be fine

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