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I think that mission critical, legacy systems from a time before there was big OSS acceptance at the CTO level is the main reason. I’m not sure how many greenfi

I think that mission critical, legacy systems from a time before there was big OSS acceptance at the CTO level is the main reason. I’m not sure how many greenfield projects are using Oracle, but I’d expect that is rapidly decreasing over time. However, if you’ve had an Oracle db running for 20 years, and the cost of screwing up a migration starts at 9 figures, and runs into the 10 figures, then Oracle have you by the cost-benefit balls.

swarnie_ 6y ago
Oracle consultant here -> The Oracle world is shrinking admittedly and its shrinking from the smaller end up. I almost never get called by a company with less then 500 users or $100k a year of licence obligations. Oracle is a tried and tested safe bet when implementing corp wide, multi year projects. The HN crowd won't like it (and for good reason) but CTOs will always bet on name recognition when millions or billions are on the line.
- miahi 6y ago
  As a fellow Oracle consultant, I see the same. Most of the small clients only involve me in migration projects to other DBs now (postgres or mysql), but the ones with >$1M licenses continue to pay their support and migrate to 19c. But that's also because it's way harder to migrate a huge project/organization to a completely different DB - it's just cheaper and less risky to continue with the current one.