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Oracle’s rising open source problem

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Matt Asay
Jun 15, 2015

Life used to be so simple for Oracle.

Back in the good ol’ days, the company could build a great database, charge a king’s ransom for it, and milk the maintenance stream forever. Rinse. Repeat. Unfortunately, this model no longer works, as a series of earnings misses over the last few years have shown.

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Matt Asay

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