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I'm not as familiar with Oracle, but surely it is providing significant benefits or large organizations would be dumping it and running to more reliable alterna

I'm not as familiar with Oracle, but surely it is providing significant benefits or large organizations would be dumping it and running to more reliable alternatives. These time estimates are also not very pertinent to the actual running of a large database. Nor do they speak to the various technical problems one has when running a big db that is mission critical. Lots of the classic hn "how can they be so stupid?" comments. Give the cto's more credit. Just because you write JavaScript and used mongodb once does not make you an expert on Oracle or running a very large business.

philjohn 6y ago
It's still used in a lot of places because either some bought in ERP system requires it, or because internal software was developed on it WAY back when, when either Postgres didn't exist, or didn't have as many features and no companies providing paid support. They now have a problem - and it would probably cost more than the yearly cost of Oracle to migrate.