MongoDB does pretty much everything the opposite of Oracle: Easy to setup, use and program. However, Oracle sure is raking in the dough, so is Mongo succeeding

MongoDB does pretty much everything the opposite of Oracle: Easy to setup, use and program. However, Oracle sure is raking in the dough, so is Mongo succeeding simply because they're fulfilling a niche left by Oracle, or because it's the 'right way' to build a software product company? I hope the answer is the latter, and that Oracle's billions are simply the result of the being entrenched after years and years of doing it the 'old way. That being said, I think it's a little too early to be championing Mongo's business model (even though I'm rooting for it).