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Purchasing decisions are made by managers, not the ones doing the actual work. Hence Oracle fits the bill if your company can afford it: It's number one, expen
by jteo 16y ago
Purchasing decisions are made by managers, not the ones doing the actual work.
Hence Oracle fits the bill if your company can afford it: It's number one, expensive (which implies good quality), and everyone else uses it. Ergo, no one ever got fired for choosing Oracle, licensing costs be damned.
- mseebach 16y agoDid you read the linked article? As long as there is a FYO point, there's a market for moving that point downwards. Also, I'm not aiming to kill Oracle overnight, I'm aiming at slowly chipping away at Oracles dominance. Right now there's a huge market for serving apps that for some reason are locked into Oracle, and are too expensive to re-write.
- shpxnvz 16y agoThat may be the case in some places, but certainly not everywhere. One of the public companies I've worked with uses Oracle to the tune of several million per year in licensing fees. The CEO is responsible for maximizing shareholder value and he's not stupid - he approves the checks to vendors and knows very well that a single company accounts for an overwhelming percentage of their annual software costs. Therefore they are actively looking for alternatives where the cost-benefit ratio of switching is favorable. Heck, they would be negligent not to investigate ways to reduce their costs on behalf of the shareholders.