badamsz

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[โ€“] badamsz@whemic.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That was my impression as well but as far as we could tell, only the "free" product was downloaded and their sales folks essentially accused us of lying about using it for corporate use. We referred them to the lawyers. Due to this and Java licencing jumping up dramatically again for a bare handful of actual users we have since ended all of our support agreements and banned use of Oracle products. They are too great a financial threat to the business.

VMWare by Broadcom is going to be.. interesting...

[โ€“] badamsz@whemic.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Just be careful if you download this from a corp internet address, which someone did on our guest network. Oracle sent us an an invoice for $5000 and pestered us about it for about a year of us ignoring them. We now block Oracle sites and I try to avoid Oracle products like the plague.