This. ^^^^ Oracle lives and dies from aggressive salespeople promising the world to large customers with long term contracts. The buyers get their needs met,

This. ^^^^ Oracle lives and dies from aggressive salespeople promising the world to large customers with long term contracts. The buyers get their needs met, and Oracle forces the developers (eventually) to build whatever was promised. The clients can configure what they want, and at some point after the initial buyer leaves, support gets cut to the minimum. This is true for many large enterprise software companies. This contrasts to the hands on attention from a startup. But you never know if the startup provider will be there in 3 years, or if they'll scale their engineering team. This is why startups tend to sell to startups, and large companies tend to buy from other large companies. (Of course there are 100s of exceptions)