> Assuming this is the case unless you are and oracle guru or moving legacy applications i cant see this being useful for anyone other then large organisations.

> Assuming this is the case unless you are and oracle guru or moving legacy applications i cant see this being useful for anyone other then large organisations... I hear this so often, but it's just not the whole story. Believe it or not, Oracle makes a really good product. There are a lot of features in Oracle Database that you can't find elsewhere. I'm not running a huge operation, but I have two good reasons to use Oracle: 1. Aside from providing a really good RDBMS, there are some neat features like VPD, Data Masking, and TDE that are compelling. If you work under SOX, HIPAA, PCI, etc., these things go a long way toward compliance. 2. I sell to huge operations, and they know and use Oracle. Nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle. I do a ton of work with other systems (particularly Postgres), but when I put my audit or sales hats on, they're embroidered with Oracle logos.