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> Deloitte is a $40 billion company, it's not like every single one of their projects is a complete failure. Citation needed, see Oracle, many companies have g
by ndiscussion 6y ago
> Deloitte is a $40 billion company, it's not like every single one of their projects is a complete failure.
Citation needed, see Oracle, many companies have grown that large on the backs of taxpayers by employing the best "Sales" techniques in the biz.
- greggyb 6y agoI've worked with many database technologies and many data professionals. I don't recall any instances offhand of technical critiques of Oracle. Pricing and business practices are a different story. Oracle the database is fantastic technology.
- ndiscussion 6y agoIn my opinion, pricing is a part of the product. If one company can produce a banana for $1, and another company requires $1,000 to produce a banana, that second company is an outright failure. The banana still tastes great.
- greggyb 6y agoWhen Oracle was born, there weren't many alternatives for a high-performance and production-ready RDBMS. For a long time, Oracle was technically superior to most/all other options. That is less true now. On the other side, if you get $10,000 of value from a banana, both vendors are viable options. If there is any reason at all preventing you from adopting the $1 banana, you're still better off buying the $1,000 banana than you are scorning it for its price.