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Sometimes people pay because they have something from Oracle and the sales stuff throws Java etc. in/pushes hard. Those CIO/CEOs makeing the decision might not

Sometimes people pay because they have something from Oracle and the sales stuff throws Java etc. in/pushes hard. Those CIO/CEOs makeing the decision might not now that it's free. Or they are scared away by Oracle to use these. Or some external company does your IT project like EY. Or they got sold some Java extension by Oracle. And if you pay millions for the database, the Java costs might be trivial. (Haven't payed myself for Java as CTO so this is pure speculation).

AJRF 4y ago
> Those CIO/CEOs makeing the decision might not now that it's free I like to think if I ever ran a company i'd never hire someone to a position where they wouldn't know how to sniff this out, but I imagine I am being incredibly naive. It's mind boggling to me that some bill going from $30k -> $450k as mentioned earlier in the comments on this page would just be swallowed. Seems so wasteful.
- KingOfCoders 4y ago
  I had to swallow once a bill that went up from $80k to >$500k YoY.
  - AJRF 4y ago
    I'd love to hear that story :D
    - KingOfCoders 4y ago
      Can't tell ;-)