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Well, he'd better get ready to keep getting shocked. Companies have been divesting their Oracle infrastructure for years now. Nobody wants to be audited by Orac
by chris_wot 10y ago
Well, he'd better get ready to keep getting shocked. Companies have been divesting their Oracle infrastructure for years now. Nobody wants to be audited by Oracle and then find they have to purchase useless products to ensure they don't get sued.
From a security perspective, Oracle is pretty awful. They have a history of responding to bug reports with cease and desist letters for violating copyright.
Their support is dreadful - and given they are such a black box then there are many folks who actually need decent support. It's very expensive to tune workloads, and their CBO is such a pain that anytime even a point release comes out you need to carefully reproduce every query rewrite, index and set of statistics to see if it is screwing up somewhere.
In short: there are vanishingly less reasons to use them, be they either technical, monetary or ethical. No one will shed a tear if this behemoth goes under.
- droopyEyelids 10y agoSpoken like an engineer. Oracle knows better than to allow engineers to be consulted during purchasing decisions.
- rodgerd 10y agoIf only engineers weren't so garbage at talking to the rest of the company, they might have more of a say.
- chris_wot 10y agoThis is an old chestnut so I can only assume that you say this tongue in cheek! P.S. I'm not an engineer, far from it. The problem with doing business at the CEO/CIO level alone is that others can do the same, and almost certainly are doing likewise. That's a lot of golf.