Sounds like everyone knows roughly what the relationship with Oracle will be like. :) Around some other vendors, there's collective loss of institutional (fiel

Sounds like everyone knows roughly what the relationship with Oracle will be like. :) Around some other vendors, there's collective loss of institutional (field) knowledge about what you're going to get. I suppose contributing to this could be a lot of new people who aren't mentored-in as well as they could be. Also, there's been a field shift towards many (most?) ICs and even managers/execs not being incentived to become aware of non-short-term implications of vendor and tech choices. Whether it's ICs driven by sprint metrics, startups motivated to rapidly throw up appearances of growth to hit funding rounds, or people job-hopping every 18 months before they see longer-term cause&effect.