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Banking software firm tiptoes off to the cloud with MariaDB after $2m Oracle licence shocker
Financial services software specialist FNI has dodged a $2m licensing bullet by jumping off Oracle databases and lifting its MariaDB environment to the cloud.
The banking technology services company is moving its loan risk management system to MariaDB's DBaaS SkySQL, with a heritage in the open-source MySQL family, hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, a transition set to be complete in the next month.
#MariaDB #MySQL #Oracle #OpenSource
Interesting development. Big Tech, tons of money involved. Ten years ago we didn't see this coming, it seemed possible though.Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
For decades prior to Oracle's lawsuit, most people in the software industry assumed that APIs couldn't be copyrighted. That meant a software company could re-implement the APIs of a competitor's product in order to enable software, designed to work with the competitor's product, to work with its own.#java #oracle #google #tonsofmoney
A win for Oracle would call that into question. That would not only generate extra work for copyright lawyers, it could lead to a world where software compatibility problems crop up more often in everyday life.
More importantly, an Oracle win could reshape how copyright law treats APIs, giving incumbents the power to lock out competitors who want to build compatible software.Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google
Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.arstechnica.com
For decades prior to Oracle's lawsuit, most people in the software industry assumed that APIs couldn't be copyrighted. That meant a software company could re-implement the APIs of a competitor's product in order to enable software, designed to work with the competitor's product, to work with its own.#java #oracle #google #tonsofmoney
A win for Oracle would call that into question. That would not only generate extra work for copyright lawyers, it could lead to a world where software compatibility problems crop up more often in everyday life.
More importantly, an Oracle win could reshape how copyright law treats APIs, giving incumbents the power to lock out competitors who want to build compatible software.
Supreme Court justices seem poised to allow copyrights on APIs.arstechnica.com
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Opinion: Copying APIs is essential to competition in the software industry.arstechnica.com
Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19825059
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