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There's also the fact that enterprise purchasing decisions are often made on the golf course. My coworkers were lamenting that they had to deal with Oracle on a previous job and I explained it to them thus: why is Donald Trump orange? Donald Trump is orange because his buddy owns a company which makes a line of fake tan products. The products don't have to be any good; Trump uses them because his buddy makes them. His buddy gets promoted or at least attracts attention, and Trump gets someone powerful he can call in a favor from if needed. And that's how purchasing decisions for big-ticket enterprise software like Oracle get made: the head of sales of Oracle becomes buddies with our CTO on the golf course and convinces him to use the database his buddy represents. Not for any technical reasons... to help your buddy and your buddy will help you.