On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 09:24:36PM -0500, Raymond Beaudoin wrote: > I've sold hosting for game servers and other applications for some time, > but it's standard practice here to deny anything which requires Java. I was > talking to a long-time friend in the same business a few days ago and he > had to pull the plug on one of his larger nodes for a few hours because he > sells hosted Minecraft instances which relies heavily on Java. Well > needless to say, Java was hacked and his network became wide open. It's a > sad reality.
The reality is that Oracle doesn't give a shit about its customers and
never has. Look at the deplorable state of patches for it's namebrand
database product for over the past decade. They just don't care. They
never will. As long as Ellison gets to continue buying yachts and
islands he's happy.
John
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Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
-- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), composer, musician, film director
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