[homeland221]

"Project manager". That says it all. Do you think existing oracle DBAs willing to assist to kill their cushy jobs? Even if not complete replacement, partial replacement like postgresql would easily slash that 100m bill by several millions.....more than enough to hire developers to replicate those missing features.

[sidlls]

I'm not defending Oracle here--far from it, as their sales and follow-up audits when you ask for support are purely predatory--but a tiny fraction of companies are in a business where "hire developers" is a feasible or reasonable approach to a problem. You might argue that software runs everything, so every company of a size where it's reasonable to even consider something like Oracle is in that business whether they want to be or not, but that's just not how it works.