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I'm not sure there are really viable alternatives. If all you need is a big CRUD database, sure there are alternatives, but there always were. Anyone buying Ora
by ams6110 8y ago
I'm not sure there are really viable alternatives. If all you need is a big CRUD database, sure there are alternatives, but there always were. Anyone buying Oracle for that was throwing money away. If your enterprise is more fully committed to the Oracle platform, or if you need a support model where you can open a ticket had have people working on it 24x7, possibly on-site, until it's resolved, then no, you can't just drop in PostGres or EnterpriseDB.
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- Retric 8y agoTeradata a competitor at the high end and Microsoft SQL server is an example at the low customers still want significant support. The enterprise market is not competitive the way gas stations are, but major vendors do compete. In many ways Oracle is the low end of these solutions, but few companies actually need giant databases with thousands of drives.
- justinclift 8y agoNit-pick, it's "Postgres" not "PostGres". :)