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Does Oracle have much growth of their core RDBMS database product? When I look at the software dev ecosystem right now it makes little sense to use Oracle for a
by DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
Does Oracle have much growth of their core RDBMS database product? When I look at the software dev ecosystem right now it makes little sense to use Oracle for a greenfield project: everyone and their dog are using Postgres, even if Postgres wasn’t free it still saves you from Oracle’s onourus licensing obligations.
So perhaps Oracle sees that they’ve extracted all of the value from their RDBMS from companies that are free to choose alternatives - time to move into an industry sector with great potential for regulatory capture. So… I wouldn’t be surprised if we start to see a HIPAA-like regulation for healthcare info that coincidentally only Oracle DB complies with.
- alephnerd 2y ago> Does Oracle have much growth of their core RDBMS database product Not really, and Oracle has clearly known that too for a decade. They tried a pivot into cloud (they did a similar thing with Oracle Linux decades ago), and did a similar pivot into the Healthcare IT space over the past decade. > HIPAA-like regulation for healthcare info that coincidentally only Oracle DB complies with It's a competitive space. Epic, Microsoft, AWS, and other companies can also meet those RFCs.