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Amazon, ditch us? But they can't do without us – Oracle

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"IMHO if Amazon, RedHat and Google joined forces"

How much of its internal code code Google has ever open sourced? I'm sure Google runs some very huge databases, but it's part of their core business and a competitive advantage. Don't expect it to release that open source just to poke Oracle in the eye.

In many ways GPL is perfect for companies like Google which run enormous internal system and don't sell much of on-premises software. They can take advantage of others' code, but because they never release/sell theirs, they can keep all for themselves - but when it suits their very own needs to open source.

RedHat is probably the main choice to run Oracle on Linux, if you don't want to get the OS from Oracle as well (which is anyway little more than a rebranded RedHat). I'm sure many of its licenses comes from that source.

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