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re 2) - we once fell into this marketing trap of "Oracle runs best on Oracle". If it only were true!

We had Oracle databases running on Oracle Solaris running on Oracle SPARC servers, because the bosses were convinced of the synergies. When the problems started (with Solaris zone clusters) it was a happy merry-go-round of fingerpointing between Oracle support groups.

Oracle is on a rather short list of companies I'll try to avoid doing business with if at all possible.