51 year old software developer here and through my entire career Oracle was seen among the developers I know as something you'd sometimes be forced to use becau

51 year old software developer here and through my entire career Oracle was seen among the developers I know as something you'd sometimes be forced to use because a non-technical person at your company agreed to pay so much for a license that it would be too publicly embarrassing not to use it. It wasn't seen as an inherently bad piece of technology, it was just massive overkill (too expensive, too high maintenance) for a lot of the solutions it ended up being used for because of the effectiveness of Oracle's sales organization.