Inspired by this post by Ed Zitron on Bluesky, I wondered if Oracle would file for bankruptcy in the future, whether due to poor decisions, millions in losses in sectors that failed to meet their targets, the loss of lawsuits filed by users and/or customers, or other reasons.

What fate would you like to see for the products offered by this company?

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

For their databases:

  • Postgress
  • DuckDB
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Load up their software on prison computers, force former employees to use it daily.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Oracle database should have only one destination: The garbage bin

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Java is under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, but realistically it is likely to end up being bought by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Meta or Apple.

    Oracle Solaris is likely to be absorbed by the Illumos Foundation.

    Just as Oracle ZFS is likely to be absorbed by the OpenZFS Project.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We will finally own JavaScript. Which is hilarious.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think before this happens, a company would purchase Oracle, because all the tech they have. Oracle has a lot of enterprise and database stuff that I'm not familiar with. The only thing that counts to me is Java. So which companies has the money and knowledge and interest to buy Java rights?

    I'm not sure if this would be a good idea, but I can see Google to buy Java. The Android system is based on Java and they need the stability of the rights to not get in conflict with Oracle or any other company again. Also this would give Java some better development I guess.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Java will be stewarded by Eclipse foundation.
    Solaris will become stewarded by illumos.
    Zfs by openzfs.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oracle NoSQL Database is released under the CDDL or Apache license

    Java being bought by JetBrains and ending up merging Java and Kotlin

    The rest in the trash

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Destroyed, never to be seen again.

    Well maybe virtualbox could be spun out first.

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    Oracle owns Cerner which is the largest healthcare IT provider. I believe by a wide margin...?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'm OOTL, what's the thing with Oracle?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    For them to disappear with it

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