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Oracle doesn't do marketing like that.

Oracle doesn't care what you do, unless you are in their target market: enterprise software.

If you are, then no amount of talking to management will trump the potential of their talk with management: "Sorry, you are using an unsupported configuration. Your 500K support contract is now void, you will no longer receive critical updates and your licence will expire at the end of the month. Good luck getting your data out before then. Oh, BTW, if you keep your database running after the licence is expired then we'll sue you"

You'll never win taking Oracle on head on like that.

OTOH, they are very vulnerable to new applications that just happen to be written in Cava on a JVM-derived virtual machine.



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