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Amazon made a pretty big deal of how they finally migrated off of Oracle to get away from their repressive licensing. Being locked in sucks when the vendor can

Amazon made a pretty big deal of how they finally migrated off of Oracle to get away from their repressive licensing. Being locked in sucks when the vendor can extract monopoly rents. Maintaining a second source is a good business strategy.

opless 8y ago
It's why the military tend to insist on it.
scarface74 8y ago
Yes and Amazon built their own globally distributed infrastructure,DynamoDB and RedShift - a purposefully play on shifting from Oracle - a random company isn’t going to do that. And it took 10 plus years. Again a random company is not going to take on a ten year plan to move from Oracle.
StreamBright 8y ago
Amazon has engineering teams that very few other companies have. Do you think a bank would be able to move out from Oracle like Amazon? I do not think so. Maybe they would be able to move to DB2 or SQLServer with the help of the other vendors, so trading a vendor lock in for an other.