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by alephnerd 799 days ago
> 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.