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We kind of agree, but from a different angle. I see a product in its entirety: Technology + Community. The latter should extend beyond the technology-affine end

We kind of agree, but from a different angle. I see a product in its entirety: Technology + Community. The latter should extend beyond the technology-affine end user. As you mentioned, Oracle was always better at that. I wasn't alive back then, I only know from listening to the stories. But I'd say that most Oracle customers are rather happy being Oracle customers, while only a select "elite" regrets what happened back then.

epalmer 10y ago
My memory is failing me at 62 but back then the Ingres community was much more positive about the product than the Oracle community. At one point I was president of the North American Ingres User Group (Association, what did we cann it?). I had moved from using Oracle version 1.x to Ingres 1.x in the beginning because Oracle was so bad. I think that was about 1982 or 1983. But the company (Relational Technology) just had no idea what they had and how to sell it. I'm an Oracle customer today because my shop has a site license. I would use mysql for what I need an RDBMS for today (very light, low volume usage). Oracle is overkill for my work. But it is always available and there are advanced features should I need them.