I imagine it's extremely rare that someone comes to HN regularly would choose to buy Oracle with alternative options on the table. Here is the cynical view: th

I imagine it's extremely rare that someone comes to HN regularly would choose to buy Oracle with alternative options on the table. Here is the cynical view: the majority of "enterprise" S/W development happens in companies whose CTOs knows very little about software development other than the powerpoint slides they saw from sales or consultants. And all their CEOs can do to improve their technology is to throw more money to those CTOs, who in most cases can only spend those money by buying expensive services/support, hiring AAA brand consultants and hiring as many managers as it takes to "improve the productivity." Well, what else can they do, good engineers don't want to work there.