[to11mtm]

> Also, even though Oracle engages in horrible unethical business practices, I hear that their database product isn't bad.

It's not a terrible DB to work with. I'd go with something like Postgres > Oracle > MSSQL > MYSQL.

And, mind you, if you care about ease of use/maintenance rather than performance, I'd swap Oracle and MSSQL on that list in a heartbeat.

But also need to say... Every year when the Oracle folks came by, all of the managers would get super antsy/nervous. They would always find 'something' that we had done wrong to warrant an additional payment on our contract. Their shenanigans were so bad that we weren't allowed to install ANYTHING downloaded from Oracle without checking with someone first.