Personally I think there's a fairly large cultural disconnect between shops running open-source stacks and shops running Oracle... Quite possibly. Our company

Personally I think there's a fairly large cultural disconnect between shops running open-source stacks and shops running Oracle... Quite possibly. Our company does use a lot of open source in the Java & Perl layers, but we're pretty tightly locked in to Oracle on the backend. I think it may be true that the sheer vastness of Oracle tempts you into believing you can solve every problem the Oracle way, which is why IOTs came to mind. I'd love to experiment with other options, myself, but its difficult once everything you do is predicated on it.