[thda]

> Oracle RDBMS is not an inferior product to open source competitors, in most ways superior

It is also in a lots of extremely critical ways inferior. The huge complexity, the huge footprint, the humongous prices are enough to justify staying far away from it.

[tomnipotent]

Oracle DB is not intended for WordPress and RoR web apps. It's an entirely different beast of an offering, and if your business is in need of what it can do than by this point the "huge complexity" is nothing compared to what your organization is probably already dealing with.

When you have thousands of engineers, "complexity" is very subjective.