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Oracle confesses to quietly axing its UK software support centre

nijam Silver badge

Re: Is there any legitimate reason to choose Oracle?

> why did Oracle buy up OSS projects like MySQL and OpenOffice?

They didn't buy them (up, or otherwise). They got them free, bundled as a more-or-less unwanted part of Sun Microsystems.

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