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by ilyak 6084 days ago
Is it you who are writing the program or "IBM or Oracle"?
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The technology I can use for real work is to a certain extent dictated by what is acceptable to the organization. Backing from a major vendor goes a long way towards assuring that.
Was Perl backed by a major vendor? MySQL? FreeBSD?

If it's already backed by a major version, you're already late. So slow.