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When I was a bit younger I worked on quite some high profile (for my country) web apps. Think e-commerce, travel. Couple million users. We used Oracle on big f

by tnolet 4y ago

When I was a bit younger I worked on quite some high profile (for my country) web apps. Think e-commerce, travel. Couple million users. We used Oracle on big fat metal server stacks for this. I honestly thought this was needed because RAC and some other stuff. Uptime! Now, a little older and wiser, I know all of these projects would have been fine on Postgres on some hosted provider.

pmontra 4y ago
When companies were moving to the internet in my part of the world, second half of the 90s, their preferred stack was a Windows NT 3.5 server, Java and an Oracle DB communicating by file exports/imports with some AS 400 or an actual IBM mainframe.