Not all of us are in a position to work only on great products. My impression of Oracle products is that they are frustrating to work with, feature-rich rather

Not all of us are in a position to work only on great products. My impression of Oracle products is that they are frustrating to work with, feature-rich rather than elegant. They can work well, but take a lot of configuring and tuning. The ex-Oracle folks I've worked with have been a mixed bag. Their reports about working for Oracle have also been mixed, skewing toward the bad. I suspect the company is basically run by sales, not engineering, certainly not customer support.