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I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, so don't take this at face value: I remember some colleagues rolling out a project to thousands of postal service br
by ThePadawan 6y ago
I'm not sure if I remember this correctly, so don't take this at face value:
I remember some colleagues rolling out a project to thousands of postal service branch offices. Oracle was very happy to provide 24/7 emergency DBA services in case anything went wrong with any of the instances (local to the branch offices).
Just an additional guarantee of "if one of them behaves weirdly, we will be right on it" (as a service).
Unless you get a Postgres-based consultancy to do the same for you (and ofc they're not first party), that support is just unbeatable (in terms of what you're selling to your customer, the post offices).
- pkaye 6y agoWhat happens when the Oracle staff doesn't perform to your expectations and the contract?
- owaislone 6y agoYou use Ora2Pg
- mjw1007 6y agoThis is the aspect that baffles me. I've heard people say with a straight face that they'd prefer to use Oracle "so there's somebody to sue" if things go wrong. But it also seems to be uncontroversial that no good could plausibly come out of attempting to sue Oracle.
- ThePadawan 6y agoGood question. I don't know. You have to live with them anyway? You obviously don't try to sue them, their company is 90% legal staff [0]. (Sorry I can't find the original source) [0] https://am21.mediaite.com/tms/cnt/uploads/2011/06/org-charts.jpeg https://am21.mediaite.com/tms/cnt/uploads/2011/06/org-charts...