The best bit when I worked at one of those companies that had an expensive Oracle contract was this dynamic: 1. Can we use MySQL for <new product>? No, use Or

The best bit when I worked at one of those companies that had an expensive Oracle contract was this dynamic: 1. Can we use MySQL for <new product>? No, use Oracle, we have a support contract 2. <oracle related issue occurs> Can we call that support contract in now? No, let's try the inhouse expertise first. 3. <inhouse expertise comes up with barely passable hack> Can we check if they have any better solutions? No, it's "solved" now Like, what were we paying for? I have to assume there's per-engagement costs as well as the ongoing costs, given how hestitant our contract owning team were to let us anywhere near Oracle.