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There was a time when Oracle's database product was kind of like IBM mainframes. If you could afford it, and really needed its capabilities, there was no substi
by ams6110 9y ago
There was a time when Oracle's database product was kind of like IBM mainframes. If you could afford it, and really needed its capabilities, there was no substitute.
As a result, their sales and business practices focus on selling huge deployments to Big Enterprise and large government contracts.
Not surprising they never really made inroads with small developers and startups, and why they have the reputation they do in that community.
- larkeith 9y agoIn my experience, Oracle's been doing a wonderful job at spreading their current reputation beyond the smaller developers community.
- robbyt 9y agoWhy do you think they never won the hearts of the people who actually had to use the product?
- ams6110 9y agoWell, I used Oracle rdbms for a number of years and quite liked it. Their business applications on the other hand I have never used but have heard they are pretty much horrible.
- enraged_camel 9y agoThey indeed are horrible. What is worse is that, out of the box, they don't do much, and the stuff they do is guaranteed to not fit your business. So you end up needing customization, and that's when shit gets real expensive.
- sheepmullet 9y agoI love oracle db and so do lots of dbas.
- gaius 9y agoOracle the core-RDBMS is great. It’s everything they’ve layered on top of it, like the ERP stuff, that is horrific. But now Oracle is going to companies and saying hey you don’t need DBAs, use our cloud. The right thing for all Oracle DBAs to do right now is to push for their orgs to move wholescale to Postgres. Hit Oracle where it hurts.
- itronitron 9y agooracle is completely unable to create an application that shows anything other than a database table or tables, yet all of their sales are targeted to business users not DBAs.