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That's why there are consulting companies specialized in Oracle licensing. Just hire one of such consulting companies, instead of dealing with Oracle directly.
by perfecthjrjth 4y ago
That's why there are consulting companies specialized in Oracle licensing. Just hire one of such consulting companies, instead of dealing with Oracle directly.
- SauciestGNU 4y agoI may be just a simple engineer with mostly postgres experience but why in hell would businesses go through all this pain for oracle's db product when there are all sorts of alternatives? Is the product really that much better?
- maeil 4y agoI'm sure someone will chime in with direct experience wrt Oracle, but most cases where it looks like many companies are overpaying by >5 times for a certain service or product compared to the value it delivers are similar. Such decisions are commonly made (or at least signed off on) by upper management who are paying so much purely for CYA reasons. The old "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". Another related but distinct reason is box-ticking purchasing decisions. Decision makers who 1. aren't the end users 2. lack technical knowledge 3. are overconfident and overweigh their own opinion, are likely to decide between products purely based on the number of feature boxes it ticks, regardless of their real-life usability and usefulness. Companies like Oracle know this and cater to it. They don't care if a new feature is useless or poorly implemented as long as it creates a new box that makes the decision makers 0.5% more likely to go with their product.