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Oracle has burned a lot of bridges in DoD- they have their enterprise DoD agreements for DB and milk those for far more than they're worth. Lots of individual p
by panzagl 8y ago
Oracle has burned a lot of bridges in DoD- they have their enterprise DoD agreements for DB and milk those for far more than they're worth. Lots of individual programs would love to get off Oracle, but find themselves tied because in theory it's already paid for.
- rdtsc 8y agoDefinitely. There was an article here not too long ago about how even at an Oracle conference someone casually polled the attendants and found most would be happy to use something else and were exploring PostgreSQL or other options. Then of course my favorite Oracle bit is from Bryan Cantrill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m