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>Eventually, Oracle is going to run out of their oblivious- executive-type customers Perhaps some are oblivious, but not in general. At some point, when one ge
by ibejoeb 8y ago
>Eventually, Oracle is going to run out of their oblivious- executive-type customers
Perhaps some are oblivious, but not in general. At some point, when one gets busy enough, convenience and reliability trump bargains.
I know I can replace the backlight on my macbook, but I'm still going to the Apple Store. I know I can save 15¢/gallon at a gas station a mile away, but is it really worth the time and energy to do it at that price? That's why I buy Oracle and just about everything else.
- TimTheTinker 8y ago> convenience and reliability Modern cloud hosting usually provides all of the above you need. Is a PostgreSQL DB in Azure really any less reliable or convenient than an Oracle DB? Perhaps if you’re already heavily invested in and comfortable with Oracle, but I don’t think so otherwise.
- grumpydba 8y agoOracle still runs circles around postgres for high availability, backups and management tools. However most big companies are slowly migrating all their small Oracle instances to pg. I happen to work in one of those companies who's had enough with Oracle's outrageous pricing schemes and audit threats.