Re: Why am I not surprised?
In other words, Oracle isn't facing a hypothetical threat from Postgres. Rather, they're facing direct competition from a local commercial competitor who is well placed to use Postgres to take a lot of Oracle's business away from them in Russia.
This also explains why Oracle did not attack other competing databases, like MySQL (ooops, that's an Oracle product nowadays).
It s good the Russians promote diversity in software, even if in a bit heavy-handed fashion.