Inspired by this post by Ed Zitron on Bluesky, I wondered if Oracle would file for bankruptcy in the future, whether due to poor decisions, millions in losses in sectors that failed to meet their targets, the loss of lawsuits filed by users and/or customers, or other reasons.

What fate would you like to see for the products offered by this company?

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[–] sepi@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago

Hell

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

I'm OOTL, what's the thing with Oracle?

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

Sun Microsystems rises from the ashes like a Phoenix

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

I think before this happens, a company would purchase Oracle, because all the tech they have. Oracle has a lot of enterprise and database stuff that I'm not familiar with. The only thing that counts to me is Java. So which companies has the money and knowledge and interest to buy Java rights?

I'm not sure if this would be a good idea, but I can see Google to buy Java. The Android system is based on Java and they need the stability of the rights to not get in conflict with Oracle or any other company again. Also this would give Java some better development I guess.

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 28 points 1 day ago

Oracle database should have only one destination: The garbage bin

[–] Loduz_247@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Java is under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, but realistically it is likely to end up being bought by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Meta or Apple.

Oracle Solaris is likely to be absorbed by the Illumos Foundation.

Just as Oracle ZFS is likely to be absorbed by the OpenZFS Project.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Man saying Oracle Solaris just put a bad taste in my mouth. As a once Sun fanboy that loved SPARC i am sad now.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Apple doesn't sell WebObjects anymore, I don't think they use Java internally anymore.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

So... nothing of significance.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 day ago

Java will be stewarded by Eclipse foundation.
Solaris will become stewarded by illumos.
Zfs by openzfs.

[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Oracle owns Cerner which is the largest healthcare IT provider. I believe by a wide margin...?

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We will finally own JavaScript. Which is hilarious.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

I like get triggered. This reminds me that I'm alive.

[–] Loduz_247@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

J# and J++ have entered the chat

[–] IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oracle NoSQL Database is released under the CDDL or Apache license

Java being bought by JetBrains and ending up merging Java and Kotlin

The rest in the trash

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Jetbrains Java would be the best outcome. They're already heavily invested in Java and in the community.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

Destroyed, never to be seen again.

Well maybe virtualbox could be spun out first.

[–] beepbooprobot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The bin

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

For them to disappear with it

[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Load up their software on prison computers, force former employees to use it daily.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

For their databases:

Postgress
DuckDB