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by slau 719 days ago
A client had a DB hosted by Oracle. The client was doing most of their compute on AWS, and wanted to have a synchronised copy made available to them on AWS. Oracle quoted them a cool $600k/year to operate that copy, with a 3 year contract.

DMS + Postgres did it for $5k/year.
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cyberpunk 718 days ago
Client of mine wanted to shift a rac cluster from some aging sparc gear into a VMware or openstack or whatever farm they had on premise; oracle demanded they pay CPU licenses for every single CPU in the cluster as each one could “potentially” run the oracle database, quoted them seven figures.

They rewrote the app instead.

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