I used to be an oracle consultant, it paid really well. Now it doesn't, and their are less jobs in it. Unless I'm getting paid a lot I wouldn't use Oracle, I'd

I used to be an oracle consultant, it paid really well. Now it doesn't, and their are less jobs in it. Unless I'm getting paid a lot I wouldn't use Oracle, I'd do something more interesting. Around the 2000's the number of Oracle DBA's skyrocketed, they come from India and elsewhere, so companies outsourced the Oracle work to these companies, and I believe Oracle itself is developed in large part in these countries. So the work for Oracle dried up, and wages plummeted, so I moved out of Oracle, like many others. DBA work is fairly easy to outsource, at least on paper, same with Dev work. Maybe their now paying the price of all this outsourcing to a less skilled workforce (at least initially). I no longer do Oracle work, it was a nice money spinner, now its a race to the bottom. Conversely their licensing practices are extreme, as others have mentioned, so everyone wants to get out of Oracle. Having said that, their databases are still very good, and can do anything you want without going elsewhere. Though they are being disrupted from below with many open source solutions and MSSql.