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Discussion on: MS IIS or F5 NGINX ?

 
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Thomas H Jones II

Java and VirtualBox with both also previously Sun properties. That they're now "Oracle Java" or "Oracle Virtualbox", rather than simply "Java" or "Virtualbox" is a side-effect of Oracle having bought Sun.

Even as a technically corporate entity, Sun was typically a good contributor to the open community and usually a not awful steward of acquired opensource projects. Oracle bought Sun, in part, to exert ownership over and attempt to more-heavily monetize the many, established products Sun stewarded for the open community.

When you say "F5 NGINX" it evokes horrible memories of what companies like Oracle have done to popular projects.