> Serious question: Can someone explain to me why would someone still be using Oracle in 2022 when we have equally capable or even superior open source alternat

> Serious question: Can someone explain to me why would someone still be using Oracle in 2022 when we have equally capable or even superior open source alternatives like PostgreSQL, which have none of these shenanigans? Several years ago I asked this to a company that used Oracle databases in their products. I pointed out they could save $10 000 for each installation just in licensing, and probably 3 days of intense work to install it (yes, this was my main motivation. I was so good at it I had absolutely no problems with the advanced DBA training, but it still took 1-2 days to set it up the 20th time I did it, and if one missed a single step, like to stop one of the installers between step 2 and 3 to open a terminal and chmod one of the files the installer had just created, you often had to start from scratch.) The answer was enlightening and went something like this: "The first thing you don't consider is that the license cost is paid by our customers, and we get a cut. Switching to Postgres would cost us money. The second thing is that customers see Oracle as a sign of quality. It is easier to sell the product when we say it is built on Oracle "