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by hyperman1 799 days ago
They will, because someone on the board will know someone from vmwares board.

Besides, I've seen people buy oracle because all the big boys need Oracle, and we're a big boy now. Does anyone know what this 'database' thingy is? We really need one in this company, maybe it can store a list of all of our postgreses, mongodbs and mysqls? For management purposes?

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> I've seen people buy oracle because all the big boys need Oracle

DevEx does matter. Just because your large doesn't mean you can rest on your laurels.

30 years ago IBM DB2 was the goto DBMS, before they got upstarted by Oracle DB2, and the Oracle DB2 customers began moving away to cloud hosted DBs such as AWS DynamoDB or Open Core offerings.