I think the days of "no one ever gets fired for buying oracle" are over. CIO at a company we consult for was recently fired. Or rather made to resign. In the

I think the days of "no one ever gets fired for buying oracle" are over. CIO at a company we consult for was recently fired. Or rather made to resign. In the last few years the cio changed almost the entire businesses enterprise systems to oracle covering. HR, performance management, reporting, data warehousing, sales, ecommerce, repairs, document management This has effectively allowed the consulting company and oracle to fleece the business and hold them at Randsom putting the company under tremendous risk. We have been called in to untangle the mess. To give you an idea millions have been spent to build an ecommerce portal with sales in the 1000's. The ROI will probably take years To be realized. Some of the challenges dealing with the mess of a complete oracle stack: - typical people who specialize in oracle solutions are just that. Specialist in the solution not developers. - Unless you are using one of the more popular products. Finding information is practically impossible compare the google search for magneto vs oracle atg - you cannot easily transition a competent developer to oracle tools due to the complexity - some of the tools are complex for reasons I fail to understand simple things take a long time to achieve. Maybe hard things are easier but I have yet to see this - they encourage bad practices, everything goes in the db including HTML templates the works.