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They USED to have world class software. Compare Oracle DB to the competitors 10 years ago. They were at least GOOD. Lots of good features for giant companies.

They USED to have world class software. Compare Oracle DB to the competitors 10 years ago. They were at least GOOD. Lots of good features for giant companies. Competitors have gotten a lot better over the last 10 years. Oracle has mostly just raised pricing. It works for a while, but at the current path I don't see Oracle the company existing in 20 years.

ksec 8y ago
I would say arguably they ARE still world class. It is just most people don't need or cant justify their price tag when competition has caught on with clear Roadmap and sustainability. So basically they have a shrinking value proposition and they are rising prices. ( Why does that sound so much like Apple, Now I am worried )
- pmart123 8y ago
  I love my earpods and I think it shows they still are at the top when it comes to innovating on consumer devices. Using Apple Pay also makes so much sense for the consumer as it limits your CC data being at every retailer since Apple Pay tokenizes the sensitive information. If you want to see where Apple is going, checkout the Apple Healthkit API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit/samples/accessing_health_records https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit/samples/... While it is too soon to say that Apple will own the market, Apple is the only big tech company that has positioned itself for privacy and trust, giving it the best chance to own this market of the big four.
amluto 8y ago
“Good” depends on the use case. I used Oracle once, about ten years ago. The client library was so big and bloated that just loading it took the majority of the total running time of my not-terribly-long-running program. Not to mention that figuring out the connection strings is so miserably complicated that you basically need a trained expert to figure it out. The docs were worthless. I think I can spin up an entire blank MySQL instance faster than I could connect to an existing Oracle database back then.
- brianwawok 8y ago
  Well if you don’t need the features then clearly you are not the target. The oracle DB is going to support many different things compared to your MySQL cluster.
  - amluto 8y ago
    I was most definitely not the target. But having such a miserable experience just accomplishing the basics did not make me at all inclined to consider Oracle for future projects.

ksec 8y ago

I would say arguably they ARE still world class. It is just most people don't need or cant justify their price tag when competition has caught on with clear Roadmap and sustainability. So basically they have a shrinking value proposition and they are rising prices. ( Why does that sound so much like Apple, Now I am worried )

pmart123 8y ago
I love my earpods and I think it shows they still are at the top when it comes to innovating on consumer devices. Using Apple Pay also makes so much sense for the consumer as it limits your CC data being at every retailer since Apple Pay tokenizes the sensitive information. If you want to see where Apple is going, checkout the Apple Healthkit API: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit/samples/accessing_health_records https://developer.apple.com/documentation/healthkit/samples/... While it is too soon to say that Apple will own the market, Apple is the only big tech company that has positioned itself for privacy and trust, giving it the best chance to own this market of the big four.

amluto 8y ago

“Good” depends on the use case. I used Oracle once, about ten years ago. The client library was so big and bloated that just loading it took the majority of the total running time of my not-terribly-long-running program. Not to mention that figuring out the connection strings is so miserably complicated that you basically need a trained expert to figure it out. The docs were worthless. I think I can spin up an entire blank MySQL instance faster than I could connect to an existing Oracle database back then.

brianwawok 8y ago
Well if you don’t need the features then clearly you are not the target. The oracle DB is going to support many different things compared to your MySQL cluster.
- amluto 8y ago
  I was most definitely not the target. But having such a miserable experience just accomplishing the basics did not make me at all inclined to consider Oracle for future projects.