I won't argue that Oracle isn't optimized to meet and take advantage of public institutional procurement policies but if you've ever seen one of Oracle's offeri

I won't argue that Oracle isn't optimized to meet and take advantage of public institutional procurement policies but if you've ever seen one of Oracle's offerings, it's easy to surpass their quality and given their rates, trivial to come in cheaper. My mom was an instructor with the community college system in Colorado and about ten years back they rolled out an Oracle based-and-delivered student enrollment product that failed during its first enrollment after being deployed because it had been set up to only allow 100 concurrent connections to the state-wide persistence solution. Oracle was of course 'earning' something like $90,000 every day the outage continued despite it being their own direct fault. I can't stress enough how incompetent or over-priced Oracle solutions are for pretty much anyone.