[bmelton]

Simply, there are few reasons you might choose Oracle over MySQL or PostgreSQL.

- You have an application in your stack that requires it. - You are building an app that would be installed on cus tomer premises, and want to support enterprisey customers. - You have a founder, or early employee, or team that REALLY knows Oracle very well and doesn't know a cheaper database. - You're looking to be acquired by Oracle, or by an enterprise-type of company, like Cisco, EMC, etc.