Not a fan of Mongo personally, but understand the context of what is happening in corporate IT. Slashing and commoditization. They look at the $10M line item

Not a fan of Mongo personally, but understand the context of what is happening in corporate IT. Slashing and commoditization. They look at the $10M line item for Oracle and say wait a minute.. The last section of the article was the most telling.. We replace the millions $ and staff with a $5000 server. Just like trading in your US employee for an offshore replacement at 1/5th the cost. They love that message. Remember too, the quality of the tech is one factor (way down on the list) in decision making of what these companies buy. As far as the tech, Relational DB is certainly not the problem and even if it was, Mongo wouldn't be the solution. Mongo's riding the wave of slash and burn, and Oracle has pissed on more than a few customers over the years, basically with the attitude.. "where you gonna go!" Any company gets a toe-hold in big companies like Mongo has gonna be looked on very favorably by Wall St right now.. Mongo will get bought for sure, the valuation is not that nuts.