Oracle refuses to accept pro-Google “fair use” verdict in API battle
Oracle is set to repeat the trajectory of SCO. Their primary product (the Oracle DB engine) is being displaced by the NoSQL and things like Postgres. The &quot;next generation&quot; of developers equals SQL engines with &quot;old and bad&quot;, and when forced, it ends up with Postgres anyway.<p>Oracle used to survive in significant part by the support of the &quot;database administrators&quot; class. This layer of support is also becoming thinner and older.<p>There&#x27;s essentially no way forward for Oracle. They can use hostage tactics to squeeze money out of exiting customers for a few more years, but otherwise they are irrelevant in the tech landscape.<p>Except for Java, that is. The current tech is powered by Linux and there isn&#x27;t really anything as big as Java on Linux.  Python has been pretty significant and Go is making inroads, but the default is all Java. It is going to be interesting to watch how this will play out.