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> A user of Oracle since the 1980s, We all know about Resume-Driven Development and hopping to another company every 18 months, incidentally avoiding the conse

by neilv 3y ago

> A user of Oracle since the 1980s, We all know about Resume-Driven Development and hopping to another company every 18 months, incidentally avoiding the consequences. But a very different model is when people are entrenched in a shop where not only is there big legacy investment/lock-in that would be hard/prohibitive for the company to shed, but also the personnel's familiarity with the legacy setup gives job security. So there are multiple reasons to pay the Oracle Tax (and/or Microsoft Tax) and not disrupt the status quo.

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seniorThrowaway 3y ago
For Oracle DB there are a number of viable, well built and active open source alternatives like Postgres, is there any real alternative to Active Directory? I've long considered AD to be microsoft's true killer app, especially for very large enterprises.
- mschuster91 3y ago
  Depends if you're masochist enough to run Samba. It can deal with the lower stack side pretty well, but the administration UI options available all pale in comparison to native Microsoft. In any case many are shifting towards not running AD any more and instead use JAMF and similar solutions. Less attack risk (because let's face it, it's really really easy to shoot yourself into the foot with AD), and more buzzwords for the buzzword-happy C suite.
- ClueslessTech99 3y ago
  FreeIPA or OpenLDAP?
- tatersolid 3y ago
  > is there any real alternative to Active Directory? Yes, it’s called Microsoft Entra ID…