[bjw4]

How come? Have you had a bad experience with Oracle?

[Wowfunhappy]

If any long-term users (say 10+ years) have had a good experience with Oracle, I would like to hear from them!

[Dalewyn]

VirtualBox.

[luma]

Famously, the most litigious and generally obnoxious to deal with enterprise software company on the planet. Or ale doesn’t have customers, they have hostages.

[tchbnl]

Oracle is not known for its generosity.

[NikolaNovak]

I find that Oracle has tremendous generosity on individual level. That's how people become familiar with their products and services.

It's when you're in production and particularly as a billion+ dollar company that screws get properly tightened!

But from the time I was a student in 90s to occasional dabbler now, I find their free / personal / individual / non-prod offerings to in fact be extremely generous.

[tossit444]

Sudden suspensions with no chance to appeal or explanation, regardless if you were a paying customer or just a free tier user. It's ridiculous.

[keyle]

I take it you've never worked with Oracle.

[hackeraccount]

Oracle is the worst.