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Nonsense. The problem domain you dismiss is hideously complicated. Oracle DB and PostgreSQL are entirely different classes of products. No airline runs its res

Nonsense. The problem domain you dismiss is hideously complicated. Oracle DB and PostgreSQL are entirely different classes of products. No airline runs its reservation system on PostreSQL. That's not a coincidence.

meshugga 8y ago
It's not a coincidence, no, because Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not. This is also a factor for independent developers (who build airline reservation systems) who need to choose a RDBMS for their product - they'll choose oracle, because ... Oracle can provide support guarantees in a way a Postgres contractor can not. Which makes Oracle not a different class of product than Postgres, but a different class of support for the product. (which could be considered part of the product, so ... maybe you're right)
p0nce 8y ago
> The problem domain you dismiss is hideously complicated. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-biggest-codebases-in-history-a128bb3eea73 https://medium.freecodecamp.org/the-biggest-codebases-in-his... Size of software reflects the number of people working on it (and for how long), not essential complexity.
mdavid626 8y ago
This is interesting, could you elaborate?
rv77ax 8y ago
Have you heard the term "marketing"?
TheHaakon 8y ago
No, they use Amadeus. Amadeus is a wonderful mainframe program that perfectly and with 100% accuracy faithfully models how you'd book a train ticket in France in the fifties. What more could we want?