Oracle sold a product that was absolutely essential to pretty much every major business: there isn't really a good alternative to a transactional relational dat

Oracle sold a product that was absolutely essential to pretty much every major business: there isn't really a good alternative to a transactional relational database running on middle-to-high-end hardware for a lot of companies. Selling something business-critical to customers with deep pockets is a pretty good business strategy. And they only had a couple of direct competitors in that space.