> but fortunately, I don't have to deal with Oracle any more, so it's dead to me I recently did a project where I got to use Oracle 12c. Bit of a hump getting

> but fortunately, I don't have to deal with Oracle any more, so it's dead to me I recently did a project where I got to use Oracle 12c. Bit of a hump getting back into it (last time I used Oracle was 8 in the early 2000s), but, man, it is amazing what you can do with it when you leverage all of its power. I really hope they adjust their pricing model in the future to be friendly to non-billion-dollar corporations -- I'd love to use Oracle as the foundation for a startup, because the technology is decades ahead of where open source is, but, man, $48k/core... that's rough.