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Hell, Oracle got started by cloning the SQL API.

Which they payed for, unlike Google has done with Java.

SQL standard and the respective certifications have to be payed for.

The ANSI/ISO standards came out nearly a decade after Oracle's DB was released.

Before that, Oracle ripped off Chamberlin and Boyce's work. Which they should be able to do, because APIs shouldn't be copyright-able.

And how do you think standards get written, out of thin air?

At least Oracle payed something back, unlike Google, ripped off Sun and then stepped on it on their dying breath.

If it wasn't for Oracle we would be stuck porting Java 6 to other languages.

Most of the folklore seems to point to the ANSI/ISO work being done by IBM.

Does anyone actually use the Oracle Cloud? From my attempts, it's only full of misery and broken tech.

So you're saying it's an Oracle product?

It's growing rapidly in Enterprise IT on all all three fronts IAAS, PAAS, SAAS.

Do you know something nobody else does? Because the news seems to indicate that its growth has been slowing for a year now, which is not good news in a rapidly growing market. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-apos-cloud-growth-disa...

Oracle increasingly resembles the old CA. A huge licensing portfolio company with some tech/r&d on the side where good software goes to die.

It's called brand recognition.