There are products in niche spaces (Higher Ed, for instance) that are built entirely on the Oracle platform. The one we run has a front-end that was built on t

There are products in niche spaces (Higher Ed, for instance) that are built entirely on the Oracle platform. The one we run has a front-end that was built on the old Oracle Forms product and still runs that code on the Oracle WebLogic server and, at its core, are thousands of pl/sql functions and procedures. The companies that have owned this product have had numerous (unsuccessful) projects to migrate the system away from its dependency on Oracle technology. The database is a solid product, but there is a lot of stuff bolted on and configuration and management is more complicated that it should be and too many features that should be part of the core are expensive extra-cost options. I have a love/hate thing with this company - decent support, over-priced products, and a horrid sleazy sales team that I avoid like the plague.