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I actually understand how it gets to be this way though. I literally can't touch a Government project without an Oracle license. When I talk to a salesman, the

I actually understand how it gets to be this way though. I literally can't touch a Government project without an Oracle license. When I talk to a salesman, the attitude is "I know you can't do this without me", contrary to salesmen for any other product in any other industry. When I talk to a project manager, they don't ask how it will be hosted, or what the platform will be, or anything else obvious. The first question, often before a project is fined, is "how many Oracle licenses can I buy?".

oddthink 11y ago
Interesting. In what industries is Oracle so dominant? You say government is one, but where else? In industry, all I've ever seen is Sybase, SQL Server, and MySQL (ok, technically Oracle). (My background is finance and technology.)
- mrbill 11y ago
  Oil/Gas exploration. In my former job, pretty much every major piece of software that we sold to customers had at least an embedded Oracle DB as part of the install.
- signal11 11y ago
  Oracle is very popular for mission-critical databases in banks. I've seen Sybase used in banks too but it's definitely less popular now than it used to be.