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by asmyers1793 1701 days ago
Oracle is the definition of a company that remains huge but hasn't done well offering cloud services, but has a stock that's up 153% over the past five years. Databases are sticky!
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Databases have more business value and stickiness than application code. A company may keep its Oracle database for decades while replacing application code multiple times.