> The story of Amazon migrating off Oracle is probably in the same ballpark (if that story is true - I don't know one way or the other). Amazon themselves say

> The story of Amazon migrating off Oracle is probably in the same ballpark (if that story is true - I don't know one way or the other). Amazon themselves say it is true: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-consumer-business-just-turned-off-its-final-oracle-database/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-... Although note this small print: > Amazon’s Consumer business just turned off its final Oracle database (some third-party applications are tightly bound to Oracle and were not migrated). No idea what those “third-party applications” are and how significant they are - they could be insignificant fringes or extremely core business systems (such as payroll or general ledger)