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by homeland221 1287 days ago
Doubt that calibration is the impetus to stay with Oracle. Most C-suites are quite dumb when it comes to technical stuff. They also don't value technical people more than it is just a replaceable organic "machinery". I have seen many instances IT advising moving away from Oracle but every additional budget to do so (even if it is just time and no direct dollars involve) even if just to test feasibility is shotdown. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of dollars they gladly pay as long as they freely grumble that their staff too dependent on Oracle tech.
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cduzz 1287 days ago
Oracle and AWS offer the same offerings at different points in the product maturity lifecycle.

Oracle absolutely solves very hard problems, provides stability and continuity and is 100% the right solution (cost inclusive) for some hard problems.

I'd recommend you recalibrate your judgement of "all thems"

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alfalfasprout 1287 days ago
> provides stability and continuity and is 100% the right solution (cost inclusive) for some hard problems.

What kinds of hard problems? I think a big part of the discussion here is centered around the fact that aside from legacy software that's exclusively compatible with oracle (in which case you're stuck with it) there isn't yet a compelling reason to use it otherwise vs. eg; postgres w/ a support contract or even something hosted.

FWIW a lot of things people have tried to shoehorn into a traditional RDBMS can be accomplished other ways too.

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cduzz 1284 days ago
What kinds of hard problems?

Probably the vast majority of problems where Oracle is the right solution are problems where Oracle is already in use. That's actually a large market. It's unlikely that new, greenfield solutions have Oracle as the best choice.

But, let's say in 15 years -- people have some hideous brownfield AWS legacy application -- is it worth it to rip and replace an existing block of working infrastructure just because there's some new hawtness?

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hgsgm 1287 days ago
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars" is cheap compared to "staff", and staff time costs direct dollars.
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