Re: PostgreSQL x Oracle

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Subject: Re: PostgreSQL x Oracle
Date: 2003-02-13 18:55:18
Message-ID: 15947.59926.637535.319324@crowfix.com
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>>In article <3E475927(dot)3040604(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz> writes:

> You certainly can. Oracle licenses forbid *publishing* benchmark results
> without Oracle Corp's approval. So as long as your comparison is not a
> benchmark, you are fine it would seem.

> The fact that Oracle has a license containing this sort of nonesense is
> an interesting point to ponder in itself.... :-)

The New York attorney general, I believe, sometimes in the last month
or so sued several big companies ot get rid of exactly such license
prohibitions. My memory on this is pretty vague, don't remember if
the news was that he had filed suit, if the trial was over, had gone
to appeal, or what. But this kind of prohibition may not last much
longer.

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