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Or government, or any early users of high demand databases. Quite a bit of vendor lock in once you have started using Oracle. There are a lot of choices for d

Or government, or any early users of high demand databases. Quite a bit of vendor lock in once you have started using Oracle. There are a lot of choices for databases now but Oracle was the best RDBMS around in the 90s. But, you aren't wrong about management and licensing. I have been working to excise any Oracle software from use at work to eliminate the licensing cost. But, management wants to maintain some kind of external support for everything. They want somebody to call when internal staff can't handle it. Kind of an insurance policy for when shit hits the fan.

forinti 2y ago
The irony is that Oracle makes sure that things are complicated and buggy enough to require support. I once had to use a patch to be able to run an installer. That should have been the low point of my Oracle career but no! I've also had a patch fail after it had passed all prerequisite tests and after it had been installed on an identical machine: support told me the patch could have been modified. I can't even rely on installing something in a dev environment first, because they might change the patch! I hate Oracle with a passion.