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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 t

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.