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My career started in the 2000s. Oracle was already a bit of a cancer then. It was Oracle or MS SQL for "real" databases. There were technologies that had been e
by jordanb 2y ago
My career started in the 2000s. Oracle was already a bit of a cancer then. It was Oracle or MS SQL for "real" databases. There were technologies that had been exciting in the 90s but were already choked out by the duopoly like InterBase and Foxpro.
There were "greybeard" DBAs who were all smug Oracle guys.
My impression then was that Oracle didn't invent anything but had dominated through better funding and ruthless expansion. Administrating a Oracle DB at scale was really hard but that created armys of loyal DBAs protecting their hard-won skills.
- twasold 2y agoWhat ever happened to foxpro?
- pfdietz 2y agoFox Software was acquired by Microsoft in 1992. Development was finally discontinued in 2007.
- kjs3 2y agoBought by Microsoft who gradually nudged users to move to Access or SQLServer until they could quietly take it out back a shoot it in the head about 20 years ago.
- webnrrd2k 2y agoMy vague memory of it is that MS discontinued it because it detracted from their plans with MS Access on the low-end, and MS SQL Server on the high end. I think, maybe, that it may not have fit in with Visual Basic very well.
- chasd00 2y agoyeah if you remember way back then the whole concept of ORMs came about to make changing a RDBMS backend feasible. I'm not sure the plug/play RDBMS dream was ever 100% realized but that whole wing of webdev tech was driven by the desire to avoid Oracle's extortion based licensing.