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Your argument may hold for Oracle and IBM, but the web crowd produced MySQL and Postgres, investing effectively millions of dollars of developer salaries and sw
by thinkling 10y ago
Your argument may hold for Oracle and IBM, but the web crowd produced MySQL and Postgres, investing effectively millions of dollars of developer salaries and sweat equity, and those systems have evolved more towards features already in the commercial RDBMSes than towards a new, web-oriented DB flavor. Apparently web backend developers said "we want more of Oracles features" and not "we want the DB to handle these web-specific issues". At least, not until NoSQL systems like Mongo came around.