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Not totally, not till Oracle has been tipped into the dustbin of history. (Come the day!) I think Cisco still uses proprietary software too.
by tuatoru 4y ago
Not totally, not till Oracle has been tipped into the dustbin of history. (Come the day!)
I think Cisco still uses proprietary software too.
- ethbr0 4y agoFair! Although I've never worked with a shop that was not-Oracle and migrating to Oracle. Sadly, there's the long tail of places with existing, business critical Oracle use.
- pjmlp 4y agoAnyone that wants top tier RDMS, it nice graphical debuggers for stored procedures, integration of Java and .NET into the database, distributed transactions, raw file system accesses, web services on the DB layer, among several other features, besides Oracle, there is only MS SQL Server and the RDMS owned by IBM like DB 2 and Informix. MySQL and Postgres are kind of nice, but not really the same league at tooling level.
- bruce511 4y agoThis is completely in line with the premise above. If the database is primarily a data store, unseen by the end user, then Postgress, Firebird etc are fine. If however the database is an active part of the development stack, being used by lots of "users", writing new code etc, then commercial offerings with better tooling win.
- nine_k 4y agoWith Oracle's strong ties with government structures, it's unlikely that it will be gone in the next 30 years. I'd say that the cutting point is when no new project considers Oracle as a viable tool. This time has largely come already.