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= Oracle
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<Evil> company that desecrated the beauty created by <Sun Microsystems>, and was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America[trying to bury Java once and or all in the 2010's].
Their database is already matched by <open source> e.g. <PostgreSQL>, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning[ERP] and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_management[CRM] specific systems are boring.
Oracle basically grew out of selling one of the first <SQL> implementations in the late 70's, and notably to the <United States Government> and particularly the <CIA>. They did deliver a lot of value in those early pre-internet days, but now <open source> is and will supplant them entirely.