[jandrese]

Don't they still sell a database product? As long as they don't do the Venture Capital thing and sell off the most promising business units there should still be something for the company to do after the AI bubble implodes. Certainly there will be a lot of layoffs, and maybe even a chapter 13, but I don't think they'll stop existing.

[chasil]

Oracle Database Enterprise Edition retails at $47,500 per CPU core (there is a 2-for-1 discount on x86) when licensed this way.

There is extreme caution in deploying new Oracle databases, more so than SQL Sever.

[raw_anon_1111]

To a first approximation, no new company says “after looking at all of the alternatives, I think we should choose Oracle!”

Also when was the last time you heard companies migrating to Oracle from any DB?