> until about 02000, Oracle's RDBMS software was probably the best in the world I don't disagree, but that's not what I said. Yes, it was a good product; but e

> until about 02000, Oracle's RDBMS software was probably the best in the world I don't disagree, but that's not what I said. Yes, it was a good product; but everything else that came with it was already shit. It empowered DBAs, not developers, and enterprise people, not hobbyists; for these reasons (and others), it was just not something that most people liked. Popularity is not simply a function of technical value.