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by random3 3477 days ago
Oracle will become the new SCO :)

That said, the article is a bit fuzzy.

For example, if you want to use Flight Recorder you have to explicitly enable commercial features UnlockCommercialFeatures.

This is however free for non-production use. That is "designing, developing and testing"

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/...

> A. COMMERCIAL FEATURES. You may not use the Commercial Features for running Programs, Java applets or applications in your internal business operations or for any commercial or production purpose, or for any purpose other than as set forth in Sections B, C, D and E of these Supplemental Terms. If You want to use the Commercial Features for any purpose other than as permitted in this Agreement, You must obtain a separate license from Oracle.

> B. SOFTWARE INTERNAL USE FOR DEVELOPMENT LICENSE GRANT. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and restrictions and exceptions set forth in the README File incorporated herein by reference, including, but not limited to the Java Technology Restrictions of these Supplemental Terms, Oracle grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to reproduce internally and use internally the Software complete and unmodified for the purpose of designing, developing, and testing your Programs.

1 comments

Oracle won't die anytime soon.the database from oracle is just too good for big data.
I don't find it better than PostgreSQL for most applications but their sales department is much stronger. In the enterprise, many applications are sold specifically to run with the Oracle system. Oracle's other products can be a mish-mash - Peoplesoft is a horrible mess (my favorite line during the sales process was "PeopleCode is a Javascript like language that compiles into COBOL - later we found that the COBOL compiler wasn't included in our quote).

I do need to say that there's a lot of humor available with Oracle - watching Ellison's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld made me think I was hearing about AWS. Every product he talked about was cloud-this and cloud-that. Who knew that every product Oracle ever made was part of the cloud? He also trotted out the idea that you could create applications without developers by demonstrating an application he made himself - I guess he's representative of a typical administrative assistant?

I've never seen a database that has a extra tool for configuring and managing listeners for tcp/http whatever + the wierd syntax for configuring those.