Surprise! It wasn't Oracle :)

I've got to admit, that was indeed a surprise. I really hope other DB vendors don't follow Oracle's example into toxic vendorship.

By saying it wasn't a company could imply it was another company that someone else asked about that you didn't respond to.

If you say you're not going to answer in a positive, then you also shouldn't answer in the negative.

Luckily there are a lot of database vendors - it's a crowded marketplace.

So replying once in the negative reveals negligable information and probably does not risk identifying the vendor at all.

MongoDB?

Throwing out names doesn't help. Bootwizard shouldn't have even said it wasn't Oracle.

Technically true, but if they didn’t say it want Oracle then everyone would assume it was.

I have never worked with a company that bought Oracle products, but I still have a bad experience from their presale calls.