My only experience with Oracle was we were using it at a startup at the turn of the century. I got tasked with asking them for a quote. They came back with on

My only experience with Oracle was we were using it at a startup at the turn of the century. I got tasked with asking them for a quote. They came back with one but offered pretty strong technical support. My boss, wise in the way of databases indicated that their support would involve using there apis locking us to them as opposed to the odbc drivers that let you switch databases easily. Those odbc drivers weren’t great on Linux at the time. The startup ran out of money a couple months later..