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> That's why executives should make the decisions, not engineers! I understand your point and it's valid, but opportunities like this are juicy steaks for Orac
by ethbro 10y ago
> That's why executives should make the decisions, not engineers!
I understand your point and it's valid, but opportunities like this are juicy steaks for Oracle and IBM sales guys. I think the best possible outcome is to involve engineers, solicit a reasonable internal cost bid, then invite external contracts, then pick what makes sense.
"We can just buy it" is what funneled money that could better be spent elsewhere into the coffers of legacy infrastructure companies for decades.
- beat 10y agoAs a for-example, we were implementing this stuff in the days before MySQL had ACID transactions (back when they bragged about how much faster they were than other databases, handwaving over the cost others had for implementing transaction logs and rollback). The DBA and I tried to get Sybase in, but the Sybase sales rep, unused to startups, quickly offended the CTO with vague pricing. He was an open source purist and wanted MySQL. I cannot begin to explain how much extra code we had to write to deal with the lack of transactions in MySQL! Sybase would have saved us a ton of time and risk.