Oracle isn’t currently listed on the website but it’s important to boycott the company because Larry Ellison is a mega right-wing donor and his son is buying up media companies for the purpose of turning them into right-wing propaganda machines.
One way everyone can make a difference is by uninstalling any Oracle software on your computer. You might have the Oracle JRE installed or if you’re into virtualization you may be using Virtualbox. It’s especially important to avoid Oracle software in a corporate setting because their lawyers may come after you. If you work for a company and you’re either involved in purchasing software or a software developer I would strongly recommend avoiding Oracle not just because of ethical reasons but also because typically their products are not as good from a technical standpoint as well.
For the Oracle JRE or JDK you can replace it with Adoptium. Adoptium is run by the Eclipse Foundation which is based in the EU.
For Virtualbox you can replace it with QEMU or Xen. For QEMU there are a lot of good GUI or CLI front-ends that make using it easy. See this article: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Front-ends note that some of the front-ends listing in that article also support Xen.
For Oracle’s database some say that PostgreSQL is a good competitor. For this one I acknowledge the topic is more complex. I’m just going to leave it at for new designs please consider avoiding Oracle’s database if you can. Oracle has a bad reputation among programmers for a reason.
No one is using Oracle that isn’t locked into contracts or tech debt. There is not a living soul, private or commercial, looking for a new DB that picks Oracle.
Imagine walking into a church, mounting the pulpit and saying, “We shouldn’t be dealing with Satan!”
Choir. You are preaching to it.
There is not a living soul, private or commercial, looking for a new DB that picks Oracle.
Looks at my last 3 app deployments in my fortune 500 company.
Yea, you are so wrong there mate.
Except if you read into Satanism you’ll realise he’s much more positive than any and all members of Christianity combined.
I work in data, there’s 0 need for Oracle, there’s a ton of more performant FOSS tools for all needs at all scales. They just live from a bunch of predatory mega contracts thanks to their sales and legal teams preying on unneducated management.
Back in 2010 I taught myself Python when Oracle bought Sun.
And some years later the company I was working for got a call from Oracle about us using MySQL in our product and we quickly switched to MariaDB.
I always recommend adoptium and PostgreSQL at work.
The main reason to avoid Oracle is it’s nice to not being put over a barrel for every nickel and dime.
