Oracle

Oracle's not done a whole lot to impress users since buying Sun.  The latest jackass move was that they essentially slammed the door in OpenSolaris without saying a word.  In response, the entire OpenSolaris Governing Board resigned.

I don't think this is good for anyone, even though OpenSolaris was comparatively small next to Linux or the BSDs.  Having some of the Solaris tools, like DTrace and ZFS, out in the open and maintained in the open was great.  FreeBSD especially was pretty gung ho about integrating these and providing support for them.  I'm sure that this kind of behavior is seen as a threat to Solaris by its new keepers now, though.

Oracle seems to have gone on a killing spree since acquiring Sun, either by damaging the image of a product or by attacking former partners and users, either through their internal memos or things like the Google lawsuit.

We've even been hit directly at work; academic pricing on Sun hardware is now gone, and the Sun Grid Engine we used for scheduling the clusters is getting the open source axe, too.

In February, we began migrating any projects we could off of MySQL to PostgreSQL, simply because Oracle's intentions were such an unknown.  Given what they've been doing to the portions of Sun that didn't conflict with their brainchild, I can only imagine that it will be a matter of time before they set about tearing apart MySQL.

Pretty sad that in the past year, Microsoft's gone from being the 'evil empire' to Oracle and Google competing for the crown.